Malcolm Coles: MPs’ expenses – the best of the web
It’s fair to say Journalism.co.uk is interested in the media’s coverage of the recent UK MPs’ expenses scandal, so before we start rivalling the number of Telegraph pages published on the subject, here’s a round-up by Malcolm Coles of the best source data, visualisations, analysis and reportage.
A great guide for data-based storytelling too.
Meanwhile, on the front page of today’s Guardian an update on the title’s own crowdsourcing MPs’ expenses project – as reported by Journalism.co.uk on Thursday: almost 20,000 people have taken part and 160,000 pages examined.
Journalism.co.uk particularly liked this par from the Guardian’s report:
“All this will take much more careful analysis but shows the power of ‘citizen journalists’ and provides something of a riposte to one Telegraph commentator who dismissed the idea that a ‘collective of Kool-Aid slurping Wikipedians’ could conduct ‘rigorous analysis necessary for the recent MPs’ expenses investigation’.”
Similar posts:
- Jon Bernstein: What MPs’ expenses tells us about the clash between new and old media
- MPs’ expenses data will be officially released Thursday but how much will be edited out?
- Let the expenses data war commence: Telegraph begins its document drip feed
- Guardian launches crowdsourced investigation into Tony Blair’s finances
- Nieman Journalism Lab: Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s expenses experiment
