CampusJ (Jewish Collegiate News) did some bottom-up journalism that forced the New York Times to admit a mistake. Read about it here.
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To my mind, it's more than a mistake; I wouldn't have cared as much about a mistake. What happened here was a major ethical lapse in which the paper traded its reporting for early access to a report; if a CampusJ reporter did that, they'd be gone.
Posted by: Steven I. Weiss | April 06, 2005 at 09:33 AM
More Citizen Journalism Media Watchdogging
The new term shall be: "WatchBlogging". You heard it here first.
Posted by: LR | April 06, 2005 at 01:12 PM
LR: That is pretty good. Is a person who runs a WatchBlogging site a MuckBlogger?
Posted by: Alex Krupp | April 06, 2005 at 01:45 PM