7 ways to follow a field you want to investigate
Here's a part by part guide to how you can follow different 'streams' of information as a journalist to understand what's going on in a particular field, and how they can inform your real-world...
View ArticleHow to investigate Wikipedia edits
By Ian Silvera (www.iansilvera.co.uk, @ianjsilvera) First, click on the ‘view history’ tab at the top right of the Wikipedia entry you are interested in. You should then be directed to a page that...
View ArticleVIDEO: Adrian Goldberg on leads in 5 Live Investigate's investigation into...
As part of a series of interviews for Help Me Investigate, Adrian Goldberg of 5 Live Investigates talks about an investigation into misleading leasing agreements that had left many schools with large...
View ArticleVIDEO: Working with sources - and what to do if they won't appear on film...
As part of a series of interviews for Help Me Investigate, Adrian Goldberg of 5 Live Investigates and Radio WM talks about how to work with sources and the options available when they're not prepared...
View ArticleVIDEO: Adrian Goldberg on how running a website helped uncover police...
The Stirrer was an independent news website in Birmingham that investigated a number of local issues in collaboration with local people. One investigation in particular - into the employment of CCTV...
View ArticleVIDEO: The role of repetitive work in investigation (Adrian Goldberg)
As part of a series of interviews for Help Me Investigate, Adrian Goldberg of 5 Live Investigates and Radio WM talks about how some investigations simply come down to doing the hard slog of a...
View ArticleVIDEO: Using parliamentary sources (Jon Walker)
Jon Walker is the political correspondent of the Birmingham Mail and Post, and Coventry Telegraph. Here he explains how to look for leads and useful information in written questions and answers,...
View ArticleOne minute of investigation tips from Panorama's Tom Giles
I grabbed Panorama editor Tom Giles at the So You Want To Be a Journalist event to get his tips on what people should do when they start an investigation. It may be the most productive minute of video...
View Article"Public Business: A new way of supporting public interest journalism" - Maha...
Maha Rafi Atal started her talk at Hacks/Hackers London by describing the cognitive dissonance of studying to be a business journalist, with the ethics and aspirations that involves, with the...
View ArticleA search engine for data from FOI responses
Tony Hirst has created two basic tools that allow you to search for data supplied in response to FOI requests: this search tool for local councils; and this one for universities (ignore the word...
View ArticleHow we investigated Olympic sponsor torchbearers
I've written a post explaining some of the processes used in the ongoing investigation by Help Me Investigate Olympics into Olympic torchbearers. The post follows a request form the Guardian's...
View ArticleMore on how we investigated Olympic sponsor torchbearers
I've written a piece for the Telegraph about the process behind our investigation on Help Me Investigate the Olympics. This expands on some of the details in a previous post for The Guardian, adding...
View ArticleTracing individuals online: How to identify mystery torchbearers
Over on Help Me Investigate the Olympics we've posted a guide to tracing individuals. It's specifically related to the 'mystery torchbearers' who don't have a nomination story, but has wider...
View ArticleCan you help? Crowdsourcing mystery torchbearers with The Guardian
Yesterday we published a spreadsheet on The Guardian's Datablog of 500 torchbearers running without a story. Want to help investigate? There are plenty of curious names in there alongside the...
View ArticleHelp Me Investigate's first ebook: 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch...
As the Olympic Torch Relay enters its final week Help Me Investigate has published our first ebook: 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way.The book details how exactly the 8,000...
View ArticleFOI and redaction costs - why they don't count
If you come across a public authority which claims that it cannot meet your FOI request because of the costs involved in redacting data, quote the following decision by the Information Tribunal (PDF)...
View ArticleNew guidelines on the 'FOI for environmental reporting' - EIR
Cleland Thom provides another of his useful roundups on 'right to know' laws in the UK. This time it's the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), a set of regulations which work in a similar way...
View ArticleSix questions to ask before you submit an FOI
David Higgerson suggests six questions that journalists can ask to improve the end results of a possible FOI request - or save you sending one entirely. they are: Is this information available...
View ArticleA case study in online journalism: investigating the Olympic torch relay
Over at the Online Journalism Blog I've written three posts on the background to the investigation into the Olympic torch relay which resulted in a number of national, local and international stories,...
View ArticleOlympic torch relay investigation now available in Kindle store
Our ebook 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way has now been published in the Kindle store. All proceeds go to the Brittle Bone Society. Tell your friends - or gift it!...
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