Finding the source of what someone says. Provide a link from the word to his source. He or she has the power to transform gossip to wisdom.
When using references you cite the specific text, author and details about where the information comes from. If you don’t do this you will get accused of plagiarism (cheating).
Journalists retrieve information from a complex range of sources. Addressing the information sources which are used in the news process. Examines the preference for human sources as opposed to library‐based information and discusses the influence of pragmatic constraints like time and space on the production of news (Campbell 1997) .
**Journalists** approach an event and using their news sense, i.e. knowledge or instinct of what is newsworthy, evaluate a potential story. Operational rules are then used to **gather** the relevant facts and background **information** from sources like personal contacts and libraries (Campbell 1997).
Challenges
1. Investigate media that is of interest to you (e.g. conference, lecture, performance) where conflict is presented. Analyse the production using who, what, why, when, where, how? Break each subject down and chose a position within the argument provide clearly sourced evidence to back it up.
2. Look at the counter argument and back it with evidence.
3. Formulate the conclusion.
# Audio
Below is an initial audio description or “definition” of this role. We need to replace this audio with a richer audio description of the persona or character of this role as told by [+The Audio Poet](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Audio-Poet-mlcoE6ZdDvuRrcR2UAAtj).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/odfw4qomnzmij9o/T001_TheSourcerer_Definition.wav?dl=0
Here is the folder with all the audio files related to this role card:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wigc60ln9qaanjh/AACS4q8CvSy_GlspGZHcYOIVa?dl=0?dl=0
# Links
- [Fedwiki Card](http://future.democracy.garden/the-sourcerer.html)
- [https://sourcerer.io/undefined](https://sourcerer.io/undefined)
- [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sourcerer](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sourcerer)
SOurces
[](https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/03074809710159330/full/html)Fiona Campbell 1997, Journalistic construction of news: information gathering [https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/03074809710159330/full/html]