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Brant Houston

In this audio interview, Brant Houston of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) discusses the intersection of journalism and blogging.

Interviewer: Matthew Lee
Format: mp3
Length: 10:43
Download (8.4 MB) or play by clicking this button:

       

       

               

     

"You can do opinion journalism ... but the best approach to journalism is one of science. You have an hypothesis and how the evidence comes out is what you report."
—Brant Houston


Photos across top of page (from left to right) by Rob Milsom, Tom Magliery, Elaine Yeung, Stefan Jansson, Geren W. Mortensen, Jr., John Cumisky


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