Basic Journalism

Feb 212013

Why Argentina's La Nación Shares Documents with its Readers

Upon finishing a story, reporters once stowed away their source documents in a desk or filing cabinet. But today, reporters and news organizations increasingly put their primary sources online, to engage users with the facts and data behind the story.

At the Argentine daily La Nación, a team of data journalists is using DocumentCloud, an open-source project that hosts thousands of primary source documents from newsrooms.