{"id":1884,"date":"2010-02-27T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:48:07","slug":"back-to-the-age-of-muckraking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/back-to-the-age-of-muckraking\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Age of Muckraking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Barefoot talks a little about the difference between citizen journalists and beat or investigative reporters, and suggests a couple of methods that can be used right now to mitigate the risks of losing those supported roles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re covering stories. But how often are we uncovering them? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are examples of an emerging kind of citizen statistician, who uses access to open governmental data to uncover political or corporate malfeasance.<\/li>\n<li>Another solution is to divide the work of one journalist among 15 citizen journalists, and have each of them attend four town hall meetings a year. Collaborative tools make this approach possible if challenging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The more I think about it, the investigative citizen journalists of the 21st century are the activists of the 20th. They care enough about a particular topic to dig into it with enough effort and fervor to uncover new truths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/citizen-journalism-covering-and-uncovering-the-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Journalism: Covering and Uncovering the News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Barefoot talks a little about the difference between citizen journalists and beat or investigative reporters, and suggests a couple of methods that can be used right now to mitigate the risks of losing those supported roles: We\u2019re covering stories. But how often are we uncovering them? [&#8230;] There are examples of an emerging kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[37,330,1340,839,1015],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-activism","tag-darren-barefoot","tag-media","tag-newsgathering","tag-reporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-uo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}