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Why Digital Journalism’s Next Era May Be Our Most Exciting Yet

by David Skok • May 2, 2017

It has only been 26 years since the world’s first website and server went live. Since then, digital journalism has evolved quickly through the portal era, the search era, and the social era. At present, digital journalism has entered a new phase — the Stories as a Service (SaaS) era — where journalism is paid for by readers, for readers, which will likely result in quality journalism, trustworthiness, and the building of new communities.

News & Analysis

What Makes Governments Resistant to Coups? Transparency.

by James R. Hollyer, B. Peter Rosendorff, and James Raymond Vreeland • August 22, 2016

The relationship between transparency and political stability in democracies is simple: More transparency means more stable democratic rule. As transparency rises, democratically elected leaders are less likely to be ousted through extra-constitutional methods like a coup. In non-democracies the situation is more complicated. But greater transparency still means fewer coups.

Data Journalism Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips

Getting Started in Online, Open-Source Investigations

by Eliot Higgins • August 16, 2016

At First Draft, we frequently receive emails from a whole range of people asking how they can start doing the sort of online open-source investigation and verification that they’ve seen us doing. The skills and methodologies used are all something that can be learnt through a little persistence, but here are a few pieces of advice to get you started.

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Behind Journalism’s Top Crowdfunding Campaign

by Khari Johnson • May 30, 2016

A simple WordPress blog named #NoHaceFaltaPapel didn’t exist a year ago. Now it’s a publishing company whose El Español is responsible for the largest crowdfunding campaign for journalism to date. Previously at the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and now working in New York City for Univision Noticias, María Ramírez and her husband Eduardo Suárez launched the blog last April to explore media innovation at the International Symposium of Online Journalists.

Member Profiles

Tempo Magazine: 45 Years of Investigative Reporting in Indonesia

by Caterina Visco • May 17, 2016

It was 6 March 1971 when the first edition of the Tempo was published. This year marks their forty-fifth anniversary and over that time the Indonesian weekly magazine has gone through a lot, including a temporary closure under the Soeharto regime. In this interview, Wahyu Dhyatmika, investigative journalist at Tempo, talks about the evolution of the magazine and how they are trying to adapt to the digital age, considering the development of news apps and the creation of specific mobile content.

News & Analysis

Engagement or Reach: How To Best Find Our Audience

by Gina Chua • March 28, 2016

At a recent meeting of the Institute for Nonprofit News – for my sins, I now sit on INN’s board – we learned an interesting statistic: About half the organization’s members have a strategy to drive readers to their own sites/destinations, and the other half count on distributing their content via other platforms. Does it matter how we reach readers? And should we care?

Reporting Tools & Tips

How To Save Online Evidence And Why It Matters: Part Two

by Paul Myers • March 8, 2016

In part one of this blog I discussed the need for journalists to save evidence they find online and some of the techniques for recording that information. In part two, I’ll focus on some of the issues journalists face when it comes to saving information from social media and mobile devices.

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