News21 Transportation Safety Series Published as e-Book
From ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
An investigative series on the dangers of traveling in America is now available in e-book form.
The series, “Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America,” was produced by Carnegie-Knight News21 fellows working at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
The students from 11 universities produced dozens of stories, graphics, photos and videos that detail the shortcomings of the government safety system designed to protect people who travel by air, boat, rail or car.
The project was reported in collaboration with the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization, and major portions were published by The Washington Post and msnbc.com.
Eleven student journalists traveled to nine states, the District of Columbia, Mexico and Canada, talked to hundreds of officials, industry leaders, safety experts and victims and analyzed thousands of pages of documents, reports and accident and investigation data from the National Transportation Safety Board and federal regulatory agencies. Their project won several awards, including the 2011 Investigative Reporters and Editors student national computer-assisted reporting contest.
The e-book version of the project, published in e-pub and Amazon format, is optimized for long-form reading and viewing on a tablet or e-reader device, said Cronkite Associate Dean Kristin Gilger, who led the News21 project. Readers can annotate and bookmark the publication for their convenience and reference.
Read the full press release here: http://cronkite.asu.edu/node/1913
