Crowdsourced Journalism Done Right

Michael Andersen:

Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade. They’ve had a team of professional journalists on the job for a month, slamming out a string of blockbuster stories as they find them in their huge stack of secrets.

How do you catch up?

Four lessons from the Guardian’s fantastic crowdsourcing experiment.

(via Derek Powazek)

Jun. 24, 2009 community journalism webdev