Tag: reporting
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Revenge? Chicago mayor to post FOIA requests online
Mayor Daley, paraphrased: You like transparency, reporters? How about I post all your FOIAs online? Revenge? Chicago mayor to post FOIA requests online
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Reporters Look to Expand Horizons with Backpack Journalism
Leah Betancourt on a different sort of ‘backpack journalism’ involving world travel. Backpacker Journalism, anyone? Reporters Look to Expand Horizons with Backpack Journalism
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Collaboration Deepens at Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism
Chris O’Brien shares notes on a panel including California Watch, NPR, ProPublica, and more news organizations heavily engaged in collaborative reporting. Collaboration Deepens at Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism
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Cuyahoga County Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold files $50 million lawsuit against The Plain Dealer and others
And so begins an interesting legal battle over the balance between online privacy policies and newsworthiness. Cuyahoga County Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold files $50 million lawsuit against The Plain Dealer and others
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Epistemology and sources
Back in the excellent philosophy class I took in high school (Hi Mr. Lutness!), epistemology was simply explained as How You Know What You Know. And different philosophers said you know what you know for different reasons. George Berkeley, for example, had this whole “seeing is believing” thing, for example. If he didn’t perceive it…
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Crucial reading on the evolution of news, as it stands today
I feel like this summer has been sort of a rolling watershed moment in the Present of News, if not necessarily the Future of it. (Yes, yes, the lowercase present is always becoming the lowercase future, but I’m talking about the supposed collective vision for the Future of News that, well, usually gets held up…
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Wikipedia for Journalists & Bloggers – Slideshare
An *excellent* and incredibly useful presentation by @stevenwalling on how journalists and bloggers use Wikipedia every day, and why. Wikipedia for Journalists & Bloggers – Slideshare
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On IdeaLab: Reporter-turned-blogger covers the island of Alameda
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.) Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing…
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Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
Pat rocks out an intermediate level Twitter for reporting screencast so I don’t have to. (Actually, I have to, but I’ll pass along Pat’s as well.) Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
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The community-directed reporter: Daniel Victor gears up to go mojo
From Daniel Victor comes news that he’s working on a new job description, and a new reporting beat: “If I can sell my editors on the concept, I would be the author and community manager of a new blog. My stated goal will be to have at least one originally reported story per day, usually…