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Paul Bradshaw Course Leader, MA Online Journalism, Birmingham City University Visiting professor, City University, London Publisher, Online Journalism Blog Founder, Help Me Investigate How to use crowdsourcing for investigative journalism

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Presentation at the VVOJ (Dutch-Flemish investigative journalism organisation) conference 2010, Ghent, Belgium

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Paul BradshawCourse Leader, MA Online Journalism, Birmingham City UniversityVisiting professor, City University, LondonPublisher, Online Journalism BlogFounder, Help Me Investigate

How to use crowdsourcing for investigative journalism

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1. Context2. Help Me Investigate3. Lessons

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2 types of crowdsourcing?The repetitive task vs the wisdom of crowds

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http://bit.ly/m21c2

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Previously...

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The problem:Viability of investigationsThe opportunity:Engagement with issues

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"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

Linus' Law, Eric Raymond

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Open source investigative journalism

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Different news agenda

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Failure for free

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Journalism as by-product

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Community

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Social dynamics

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from Slideshare.net/unthinkingly

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UX

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Game mechanics

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What works - what doesn’t.

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Legal issues

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Sustainability and scaling

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Fire and water investigations

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5 ingredients

An alpha userMomentum - resultsModularityPublicExpertise

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POST approach

Community managerSupport journalist

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What next?

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Paul BradshawHelpMeInvestigate.comOnlineJournalismBlog.comTwitter.com/paulbradshawLinkedin.com/in/onlinejournalistSlideshare.net/onlinejournalist

Thanks.