The European Journalism Centre, or EJC, hosted a session on Maps, the Power of the Crowds, and Big Data Verification at the EYE in Amsterdam recently. Hanna McLean published a Storify with the main takeaways from the day.
What are the journalism skills needed today? Will the new tools help to raise quality? How does traditional and new journalism fit together? Can we trust user generated content (UGC) as one of the main sources in emergency cases? What are the challenges and limits of verification? Insights from professionals:
More about emergency journalism, and source: Storify by Hanna McLean, emergencyjournalism.net
HT: Rina Tsubaki (@wildflyingpanda)
Interested in emergency journalism? Read "Emergency journalism: How new tools can be used to leverage crowdsourced information" as well
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