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posted by
LaminatorX
on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:27PM
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
From the Kickstarter BLog is How I Became a One Man Intelligence Agency by Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins didn't start out thinking he'd become a one man intelligence agency, but once he started using his blog to track international activity through public social networks, that's exactly what happened. Now he's running a Kickstarter for Bellingcat, a platform for open source citizen journalism
bellingcat.com will unite citizen investigative journalists to use open source information to report on issues that are being ignored.
so what's keeping you from being a citizen reporter too?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by strattitarius on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:32PM
What this means is apparently journalism is NOT dead. Apparently if you do a pretty decent job of applying your expertise to the facts available via the internet, you can get paid to continue doing it to the tune of 50,000 pounds.
If he can get these contributors to subscribe, he will have done what newspapers have failed to do.
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