Whatever You Call It -- Open Journalism, Social Media Journalism, Open-Source Intellige... - 0 views
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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Jun 15"from the first-draft-of-first-draft dept We've written a couple of times about the use of publicly-available information, typically posted on social networks, to verify developing stories where traditional sources are scarce or unreliable. This new field doesn't seem to have a fixed name yet -- open journalism, social media journalism, open-source intelligence are all used -- but whatever it is, it's clearly going mainstream, as this announcement on the YouTube blog of The First Draft Coalition makes clear: "