Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 10, 2012
10:08 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Aug. 15, 2012
1:38 pm
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Matt Thompson
Jan. 24, 2012
8:10 am
As 2012 gets moving, I thought I’d be the very last person to list some of the ideas that have gotten stuck in my mind from over the last year.
Last year, I wrote a list of lessons I’d learned … Read more
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Steve Myers
Oct. 12, 2011
12:00 pm
One Reporter's Notebook
Laura Amico, editor of
Homicide Watch D.C., describes how she used site analytics to identify a homicide victim —
again. Early Sunday morning, she saw a police department news alert stating that a juvenile male had been killed. She
wrote an initial post. When she looked at Google Analytics, she saw a few different search queries that seemed to be related to the killing: People were searching for information on a killing the night before on the same street as in the news alert. After an hour of searching on Twitter and Facebook, she thought she had found the victim, a 17-year-old with a name similar to the one people were searching for. "I held on to my story until I was certain, but soon one of Jamar’s friends posted an RIP message to Twitter and linked to my initial report of the homicide. It was the confirmation I needed to
run my story."
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Jim Romenesko
Jan. 19, 2011
8:35 am
Washington Post
Laura Norton Amico's mission: "Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case."
Her
Homicide Watch D.C. links to obituaries, Tweets and Facebook tribute pages; posts relevant court documents; and invites comments.
Annys Shin reports Amico had been a crime reporter in Santa Rosa and couldn't find the same job in Washington, so she decided to create one.
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