Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Colombia: Use Crowd Sourcing Technology to Track Crime and Corruption
Knight Fellow Ronnie Lovler helped journalists in Colombia to use crowd sourcing technology to cover 2011 elections and the issues that mattered most to citizens.
Knight International Journalism Fellow Ronnie Lovler is helping El Tiempo, the largest newspaper in Colombia, use crowd-sourcing technology to track crime and violence in Bogota and other major cities.
Modeled after a similar Fellowship project in Panama, citizens and citizen journalists will post information on the map. Lovler will train El Tiempo journalists to use the map to identify trends and produce investigative stories about crime and violence.
Lovler also is working with the Consejo de Redaccion, a national organization of investigative journalists, to create a map of corruption in Colombia. Journalists and citizen journalists will send in reports. Lovler will show them how to use the map to identify and investigate national patterns of corruption.
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Television news journalist, reporting from throughout the United States and Central and South America for CNN, CBS and The Associated Press, among others.
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