The monkey that won a Pulitzer (17.30 saturday 16)
A mildly sociopathic Dutch adolescent lauches news on Twitter beating CNN to the mark, Wikileaks tips the world into a tizz, a new software writes in a flash baseball reports in impecable English ……. The book The Monkey that won a Pulitzer (March 2011) looks at the journalism of tomorrow through the stories of its new champions, everyday heroes (or delinquents, depending on point of view) who are changing our way of viewing the world. The key concepts are precision, speed, participation, transparency, freedom and beauty.
Bill Adair founder and editor PolitiFact, protagonist of the book’s chapter on precision
Nicola Bruno co-author of the book La Scimmia che vinse il Pulitzer
Raffaele Mastrolonardo co-author of the book La Scimmia che vinse il Pulitzer
Jacek Utko newspaper designer, protagonist of the book’s chapter on beauty
Great report! Have you checked the facts? (17.30 friday 15)
Politifact won a Pulitzer prize in 2008 for its fact-checking during the Presidential campaign. Der Spiegel has a fact-checking department of 70 people. But an increasing number of news organisations, especially online, relegate rigorous fact-checking to the optional in-tray. Opinion-based journalism constructs, frequently on very insecure foundations, while fact-checking deconstructs, gets to the source, seeks confirmation and/or proof, renders naked well-dressed but empty rhetoric. Fact-checking isn’t merely an extension of sub-editing, more a noble specialisation worthy of admiration.
Bill Adair founder and editor PolitiFact
Hauke Janssen Der Spiegel
Sergio Maistrello new media expert
Luca Sofri founder ilpost.it