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Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism
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Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism

by Stephen Quinn, Stephen Lamble
July 2012
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
6h 20m
English
Routledge
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Evaluating Information Quality

You are a journalist, it has been a slow news day and you are hunting for a good story. An e-mail arrives from a previously reliable contact telling you it has just become possible to send a message to a dead person. All you need to do is go to the Web site http://www.afterlifetelegrams.com/AFTERLIFE/index.html, compose a short message, pay a fee of $5 per word, and your message will be delivered in the near future by a person who is terminally ill.

What if another contact tells you about the free online pregnancy test offered at http://www.thepregnancytester.com, the Australian Government’s national public toilet map http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/, and the Texas Execution Information Center’s Web site http://www.txexecutions.org? ...

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