It took 18 months and more than 200 public records requests for independent journalists to build the interactive database of mass graves in Mexico detailed in “The Country of 2000 Graves,” an innovative, collaborative and remote-based project with lessons for any challenging journalistic investigation.
This session is designed for:
Newsrooms looking to build collaborations around specific projects or topics
Anyone who would like to learn about Mexican FOIL requests
Journalists interested in producing highly impactful reporting remotely with few resources
Cheap, high-fidelity video and audio hoaxes are coming soon to political arena, and journalists on the front lines of misinformation need new tools to prevent abuses by powerful...
As journalists become more adept at borrowing from data science to produce new methods of analysis, they will increasingly need guidelines for story sourcing in terabytes of messy...
Notable figures, like all of us, exhibit specific, personalized behavior online, creating internet footprints visible to anyone via ethical and public digital sleuthing. Join this...
