The Secret Weapon of The Daily Show
October 19, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
A producer of this popular US fake news show reads seven newspapers a day in print and doesn’t use Google to turn up inconsistencies, preferring stories on newspapers’ archive site LexisNexis. Read more
Tagged: Case studies, investigative journalism, television
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(No Ratings Yet)Untold stories from Iraq War
September 21, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
Polish troops will withdraw from Iraq until October 31st, 2008. In a week-long series of feature stories Gazeta Wyborcza has revealed facts about the mission that had been rarely known in Poland. Read more
Tagged: Case studies, Gazeta, in-paper promotion, investigative journalism, newspaper
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)World on the brink of a cold war
September 1, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza has just started a new series of features that tell the story of recent war in Georgia from many different perspectives: Georgian, Russian, American, Polish, French, German, Ukrainian and Belarussian ones. Read more
Tagged: blogs, feature, foreign news, Gazeta, investigative journalism, newspaper, series
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(No Ratings Yet)Are there any limits of readers’ involvment?
August 29, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
The New Statesman asked readers to vote for the next investigation the journalists should carry. The news magazine called it ”a unique experiment in British journalism.”
Tagged: Case studies, debate, interaction, investigative journalism, letters, opinion
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(No Ratings Yet)Crowd-funded journalism
August 25, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
An idea for fired journalists or a future of downsized newsrooms? Readers raise money to hire reporters to investigate stories and write about what they find.
Tagged: business model, Case studies, investigative journalism
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(No Ratings Yet)The seven great investigations
August 22, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
Look at the finalists for the first Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, just announced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Tagged: Case studies, competition, investigative journalism
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(No Ratings Yet)Get rid off all the editors
August 21, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · 1 Comment
Do we need them any more in the digital age? Of course, no! Everybody hates editors and would feel a relief if they all go to hell.
Tagged: Case studies, editor, Gazeta, ideas, interaction, internet, investigative journalism, newspaper, user-generated-content
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(No Ratings Yet)A comedian who’s more serious than ”serious media”
August 19, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
How is it possible that the US Comedy Central’s fake news show have become more informative than real ones and succeeded with getting people to think critically about the public square?
Tagged: Case studies, competition, democracy, humour, investigative journalism, television
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(No Ratings Yet)Revolutionists and newspaper editors
August 18, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
Here is my comment to the debate on whether online should always be first. It started after a memo written by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editor leaked to the web.
Tagged: blogs, business model, Case studies, debate, investigative journalism, online
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(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Should online always be first?
August 17, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · 1 Comment
A short memo sent by an editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer to his staff has provoked a backlash from online-media advocates. Are they right?
Tagged: blogs, business model, Case studies, debate, investigative journalism, online
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