Online News Association UK - December Meet-up
Event Info
Description
Channel 4 are kindly hosting this month's ONA meet-up on the topic:
Crowd sourcing – how the web can harness public wisdom to help with investigative journalism.
Presented by: Vicky Taylor, Commissioning Editor, New Media, News and Current Affairs, Channel 4
Channel 4 launched www.channel4.com/whoknowswho
to draw on the connections between people and show the networks of
power in UK. Journalists for Channel 4 News at ITN and for current
affairs programmes such as Dispatches build up maps around subjects –
from David Cameron’s school and university connections to those who
know who in the Green world of environmental politics ahead of the
Copenhagen summit. Then with the user input adding more names and
connections, the idea is the site grows and grows, bringing in new
stories and harnessing collective wisdom to become the biggest network
of power in the UK.
We'll be discussing:
How important is crowd sourcing for web journalists?
How can it be used – and lessons we can learn.
When and where
8 Decebmer, 2009
6pm - drinks, chat and nibbles
6.30pm - 8pm (ish) - presentation followed by discussion
8pm - Conversation continues in a nearby pub
Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2TX
FREE
All welcome - this event is open to members and non-members of the ONA.
