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Yesterday was a big one for newspaper companies

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

The Journal Register Company, which is running a forward thinking project focusing on newspaper production, reached an important landmark yesterday, and published their newspapers using open source tools. Read about it from Jeff Jarvis and on the Journal Register’s blog … Continue reading →

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ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab. Check out some sample reports: ProPublica: Gulf Oil Spill ProPublica: Tainted Drywall ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat Related: The Future of Context

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hacks/hackers teaming up with Mozilla on a course

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Karl

This sounds like a fantastic opportunity for programmers who want to become familiar with journalism, and journalists to become familiar with programming.

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Recent Journalist-Programmer reads

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

O’Reilly Radar: Mike Loukides: “What is Data Science?” Media Shift: Marc Glaser: “Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming” Rafe Colburn: “Why journalists should learn to program” – with a suggestion on what really to be digging into – and I … Continue reading →

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Google News adding human editors to promote serendipity

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

Good move on Google’s part. Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks” Mashable: “Google News and Why Human Editors Still Matter” Previously: Techmeme: “Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work.”

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Sean Blanda on Remixing the News

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

eMedia: Remix the News: “Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora”: “there is no service that adequately customizes content to my tastes based on previous reading” A good read with some important ideas. The only thing … Continue reading →

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Open Source news and knowledge aggregation projects that have caught my eye recently

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Managing News Ushahidi ThinkTank The Fifty State Project Media Cloud A little further down the stack: code.reddit.com GeoDjango Django web.py Flask Drupal

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There can never be enough journalists like Bill Moyers

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Karl

Recently my friend and coworker Arpit Mathur passed along a critique of journalism’s sorry state using the leaked iPhone story as evidence. The sad thing is that we might be amidst some kind of golden age for journalism and are … Continue reading →

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Roger Ebert, “Find out all you can, and see what you can do with it.”

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Karl

Read Roger Ebert’s latest post: “The golden age of movie critics”.

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Two from the Boston Globe on the Need for Better Filters

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Karl

Boston Globe: Joe Keohane: Imaginary fiends: In 2009, crime went down. In fact it’s been going down for a decade. But more and more Americans believe it’s getting worse. Why do we refuse to believe the good news? Boston Globe: … Continue reading →

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