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Journalism.co.uk wants YOUR questions for crowdsourcing experiment

Posted: 28/06/07 By: Oliver Luft
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Journalism.co.uk is embarking on a small reporting experiment and wants you to help out.

News editor Oliver Luft (me) will next week interview Honduran journalist Dina Meza about her life and work.

Dina Meza manages a team of investigative journalists working for monthly e-magazine Revistazo in Honduras. Her and her team face constant threats and danger as a result of their reporting.

Journalism.co.uk wants to throw the opportunity to talk to Dina open to other people who are interested in her work.

To that end, it wants to source the majority, if not all, of the questions to be put to her from the Journalism.co.uk readership and members of its Facebook community.

Dina will be told who sent in each question and this information will also be included in the final report. The story/audio will run on this site and also on Facebook - either directly or as a link.

Those wishing to submit a question can either leave a comment on this story or email (Oliver at Journalism.co.uk) It's also possible to sign up to our Facebook group and submit questions that way. Current members of our Facebook group can also submit questions directly through the site.

The Revistazo website was set up by NGO Asociación para una Sociedad Más Justa (Association for a More Just Society, ASJ) to investigate, publicize and address social injustice and human rights issues. ASJ is a Christian NGO dedicated to promoting justice in Honduras.

Amnesty says:

"Following the publication of reports in Revistazo implicating several private security firms in labour violations and corruption, a sustained campaign of intimidation and harassment has been waged against Dina and members of Revistazo and ASJ.

"The risk continues to be significant - no one has been held to account for the killing in December 2006 of Dionisio Díaz García, a lawyer working for ASJ, and since his death members of ASJ and Revistazo have been followed, watched, intimidated and threatened."

Why not get involved with the process and find out more about Dina's work - get us to ask her a question for you.

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