{"id":213,"date":"2012-06-11T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=213"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:23:13","slug":"stoke-sentinel-on-help-me-investigate-collaboration-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/stoke-sentinel-on-help-me-investigate-collaboration-is-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke Sentinel on Help Me Investigate: “Collaboration is king”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is Staffordshire’s digital publisher David Elks has written about Help Me Investigate in the Stoke Sentinel’s\u00a0‘DaviddotElks’ column<\/a>\u00a0following his involvement in our investigation into corporate torchbearers. He writes:<\/p>\n

“Collaboration is such an obvious idea because it allows people to focus on their skills, but team-work doesn’t necessarily come naturally to reporters. It should.<\/p>\n

“For the seven years that I was a business journalist at The Sentinel, there was a constant desire and pressure to find stories which would make the front page ‘splash’.<\/p>\n

“I would be incredibly loathed to share any tip-offs or contact information if I thought another colleague might use it to break news that I could report myself.<\/p>\n

“But I’ve had to change my attitude as I’ve moved to reporting on the web. Why?<\/p>\n

“Because it’s almost impossible to do everything yourself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We delayed our post on the photo of two corporate torchbearers<\/a>\u00a0Tom Foley and Christos Angelides exchanging a ‘torch kiss’\u00a0to allow the newspaper to run the story first<\/a>. The story was later picked up by the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Is Staffordshire’s digital publisher David Elks has written about Help Me Investigate in the Stoke Sentinel’s\u00a0‘DaviddotElks’ column\u00a0following his involvement in our investigation into corporate torchbearers. He writes: “Collaboration is such an obvious idea because it allows people to focus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[110,114,101,108,115,109,111,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}