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Crowdsourced Journalism with Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Pop Up

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Pop Up arrives in towns across America and asks residents what stories they want covering. We take a look at the implications of this style of journalism.

It is the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s first mobile bureau in the United States - called Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Pop Up. In the past four months they have landed in a particular town for a month and asked the residents what stories they would like them to cover. In the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Pop Up van, the team of video journalists go out and cover these stories and bring them to the world.

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Pop Up producer Matt Danzico takes us on the road with him as he goes to follow up on a story he was told about in a grocery store in Sioux Falls, south Dakota. It leads him to a rancher named Wyatt, three hours west of the town, who is also the lead singer of a metal band called Fantome.

Rajan Datar speaks to Matt to find out what the people he meets make of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and what this immersive approach to journalism means for the journalists themselves and the residents who tell their stories.

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10 minutes

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  • Sat 27 Dec 2014 11:50GMT
  • Sat 27 Dec 2014 23:50GMT
  • Mon 29 Dec 2014 03:50GMT

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