NPOX X-Medialab interview: Brant Houston (Knight Foundation)

Brant Houston is verbonden aan de Knight Foundation 'Investigative and Enterprise Reporting' en doceert 'investigative and advanced reporting' aan de College of Media in Illinois.

NPOX vroeg Houston om zijn toekomstvisie voor de journalistiek. Hij vindt dat journalisten nog onvoldoende gebruik maken van database mogelijkheden voor onderzoek. Verder vertelt Houston over het Ujima project, een project waarbij database technologie in wordt gezet om Afrikaanse journalisten te ondersteunen bij de verslaggeving in hun eigen land.

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Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting and teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois.

Houston became the chair after serving for more than a decade as the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a 3,500-member organization, and as a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

He believes that journalists don't make the best use of a wide varieties of databases that are already out there -- if you know how to use them. He points out that journalists working in Africa have now started to develop resources to check up on the aid agencies.

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