Here’s your menu: data-driven reporting, crowdmapping, social media, online petitions, whistleblowing platforms. Choose one, some or all of them. How best to involve citizens (and indeed other jou...
Rosy Battaglia
Rosy Battaglia is the founder and editor of Cittadini Reattivi, a crowdsourced civic journalism project of environmental health which won the 2013 Fondazione Ahref award for multimedia investigative journalism with high civic and social impact. It is part of the Crowd-Powered News Network created by Amanda Zamora of Propublica. She contributes to the Italian publications Wired Italia, Nòva Il Sole 24 Ore, La Nuova Ecologia, Terre di Mezzo and is a member of the board of the Federazione Italiana Media Ambientali. She recently participated in an investigation by Wired Italy on the effects of asbestos, allied with the petition #AddioAmianto. She is the winner of the first prize of the 2013 Premio Informazione Digitale La Stampa.
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