This via Press Gazette: Channel 4 announces funding for Help Me Investigate - a collaborative effort aimed at sharing skills and expertise to pursue stories.
Paul Bradshaw, creator of the site and online journalism lecturer at Birmingham City University, said he sees Help Me Investigate as a toolkit for people.
He said: "People can contribute their expertise to answer specific questions, and journalists with no resources could use the site to call on the community for help."
Lot more detail posted by Paul Bradshaw here.
The PG article also says:
The site will launch this month in test mode, inviting users to ask questions about local issues such as hospital parking charges, the expenses of local councillors and how much councils spend on PR.
Good luck to it;we can only do with more such initiatives at the moment. Though that list of stories to be investigated doesn't seem particular original or indeed under-researched.
Here's one: Man with stable job and bright future dies in Bath police cell and six months on we still don't know why. I've no idea what happened but I would like to know how come our present system can't provide a reasonable answer in a reasonable time for the sake of the family and the police.
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