Citizen Watchdogs
Learn the ways that ordinary people can document and expose wrongdoing, including monitoring news coverage for breaches of journalism standards, by examining a series of case studies.
Learning objectives
– I can name several ways that ordinary people can play a watchdog role.
– I can explain the details of four citizen watchdog case studies.
– I can describe the relationship between citizen watchdogs and journalists.
Essential questions
– How can ordinary people play the watchdog role?
– How do citizen watchdogs and journalists interact with one another?
– How are personal technology, social media and citizen watchdogs connected?
– What issues or subjects are most in need of citizen watchdogs today?
– Do particular issues or subjects lend themselves to citizen watchdogs? Are there some that do not?
