Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Innovative digital journalism played a starring role in the wake of a massive document release during an inquiry into British media ethics. The Leveson Inquiry, a judicial investigation into the culture, practice and ethics of the press, was originally called to examine the widespread phone hacking that took place at News International's now-defunct News of the World . During the inquiry, Rupert Murdoch submitted 163 pages of evidence, including emails that suggest that Jeremy Hunt, UK’s culture secretary, worked with the news organization to help win approval for a failed $12-billion takeover of the BSkyB network. Below is a look at how three major news organizations sifted through the information and collaboratively covered the investigation stemming from British journalism’s biggest scandal in recent memory. The Guardian The Guardian created an interactive timeline that takes readers through the email trail on a day-by-day basis. When you click on a specific date, it brings you to a piece of information found in the documents that occurred at that time. By eliminating unnecessary information, the tool allows for easy research. Pro Publica Pro Publica, using a tool they created called DocDiver, allowed readers to log in through Facebook and go through the emails collectively . DocDiver, technically, is a plugin for DocumentCloud that creates an annotation layer on top of documents. This plugin allows readers to annotate documents without changing the base material. Other readers and journalists are able to see notes created by the community embedded in a sidebar. Readers also have the option to post a finding and link to it on their Facebook newsfeed. "The tool enables much closer collaboration between journalists and their readers in real time," Amanda Michel, ProPublica's director of distributed reporti! ng told Poynter . BBC The BBC has set up a landing page that includes a live broadcast of the proceedings, a live play-by-play from reporters Peter Jackson and Andrew McFarlane, filtered tweets, breakout points, and additional ways for people to join the conversation. More About: Media , phone hacking For more Business coverage: Follow Mfarhanonline Business on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Business channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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