BRAVE NEW WORLDTechnology Improving Investigative Journalism

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New Tools. Same principles.

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Watchdog Online

helped Milwaukee

Journal-Sentinel win 2008

Pulitzer Prize.

Same journalism. New approach.

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Take advantage of technology

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Take advantage of technology

Transparent

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Take advantage of technology

Transparent

Authentic

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Take advantage of technology

Transparent

Authentic

Collaborative

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Transparent

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Connect with your community

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If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

- Lawrence Lessig

Authentic

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Connect with your community

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Corporations do not speak in the

same voice as these new networked conversations. To their intended online audiences,

companies sound hollow, flat, literally unhuman.

- Clutetrain Manifesto

Collaborative

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Collaborative

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New reporting tools

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New reporting tools

Social networks

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New reporting tools

Social networks• Facebook, MySpace

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New reporting tools

Social networks• Facebook, MySpace

RSS feeds

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New reporting tools

Social networks• Facebook, MySpace

RSS feeds•Google Reader, Netvibes

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New reporting tools

Social networks• Facebook, MySpace

RSS feeds•Google Reader, Netvibes

Databases

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New reporting tools

Social networks• Facebook, MySpace

RSS feeds•Google Reader, Netvibes

Databases• MySQL, Caspio

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Mark Briggs | journalism20.com/blog

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