Information Gathering

Information Gathering - Wednesday, April 1, 2009 (8:30 AM)

Fact Check.org
Homework
1. Prejudice
2. Partisanship
3. Provincialism
4. Herd Instinct

Traditional Journalism: basic who, what, where, when, why
Civic Journalism: still basic facts, but reports with a goal for change in society (the interactivist)
Focus: non-human sources > what is their agenda?
Particular angle you are sending out to your audience

Investigative Journalism: independent in depth investigation of an issue that is very important to the public well-being

On page 24 (of reading): What Gaines meant when he said investigative journalism is based on the documents?
Documents are hard copy
Pitch - brainstorm on paper

Research question
Boolean Operators

-George Boole (1815-1869) – logic is a mathematical equation
A And B = C
A Or B = C
A and not B = C
A * (truncation symbol) B = C