After reading Pam Fine’s post, Case studies would expose entrepreneurship students to legacy media innovations, on Kansas University’s journalism blog I had to go check out PolitiFact, one of the Web sites that KU journalism department was praising. PolitiFact is a political Web site that the St. Petersburg Times started to give the public the truth about politics.
This interesting creation proves that the news media still knows how to best deliver what people care about. PolitiFact is a site that shows the user what is being said in Congress and lets the user know which politicians statements are backed up by action or documentation. This site is useful for people who want to know what is going on in the political world but do not have the time to go through every politicians statements, votes on legislation and personal history. But what I love is that it is all fact checking which is a reporter’s forte.
Any newspaper staff could do this or something like this and it would not take much additional skills than what journalism schools have been teaching for years. This would be an easy task for some reporters who are just now slipping into the digital era and get them accustom to the Web.
