My item just now on a coming masterclass about investigative journalism reminds me that I forgot last week to mention an example of what can be achieved by young journalists who set their minds to probing a single area.
Twelve students from City University London were tasked by their tutor, Rosie Waterhouse, to take a close look at happenings in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The result of the project, shown here, is 12 pieces of original hyperlocal journalism by the students, who have just completed the MA course in investigative journalism.
Among the issues they cover are crime, housing, planning here and here, http://www.lbhffiles.co.uk/?p=24, council spending, children in care and sewerage dramas.
Inevitably, several of them touch directly on the activities of the council. And there was also an interesting piece on the likely (negative) effects of demolishing the Earls Court exhibition centre.
I shall be urging my old friend Sheila Prophet, who runs the FulhamSW6.com site, to link to this collection of well-researched material.
Full disclosure: I teach at City University London. Source: The Hammersmith and Fulham files
