[...] Documents are the foundation of investigative journalism, but today’s newsroom is a throwaway culture. Too often, reporters gather reams of information, do their stories, then chuck rich source documents into a dusty corner, never again to see the light of day.via ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab … [...]

[...] souped-up repository of primary-source material that I’ve been raving about since it first emerged in November, has a big announcement today: They’ve signed up 20 more organizations — [...]

[...] long overview of DocumentCloud in November, and you can read their initial grant application in my first post about the project. Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news technologies at the Times and one of [...]

[...] p.m. Sewell: Mentions Knight News Challenge Grant in conjunction with ProPublica and Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes [...]

[...] here. Combining that with what Aron Pilhofer and his crew at The Times are doing with ProPublica to make DocumentCloud, I think there’s a ton of new possibilities out [...]

[...] New York Times and ProPublica are looking into doing something similar through DocumentCloud, which would be a place for reporters to store documents they gather during [...]

http://ask.metafilter.com/108087/Examples-of-Onlne-Archives-that-Allow-Users-to-Add-Metadata

(and I wonder why blogging platforms don’t segregate trackbacks from comments, or somehow make it possible to hide the trackbacks…)

[...] analysis by others. It’s about three years away. (A full explanation and their grant proposal is here. More on it [...]

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing… Describe your project: What is it? DocumentCloud is software, a website, and a set of open standards and APIs that will accelerate the daily work of investigative reporters, and will make investigative reporters out of every citizen, by improving the way we find, share, read and collaborate on source documents online. (tags: nytimes media journalism innovation data) This entry was posted on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 at 4:03 pm . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing… Describe your project: What is it? DocumentCloud is software, a website, and a set of open standards and APIs that will accelerate the daily work of investigative reporters, and will make investigative reporters out of every citizen, by improving the way we find, share, read and collaborate on source documents online. (tags: nytimes media journalism innovation data) [...]

[...] some more information about the Knight News Challenge application by ProPublica and The New York Times that generated some buzz and criticism earlier this month. [...]

[...] condivisione delle informazioni fra redazioni e lettori. Il progetto – spiega un articolo del Nieman Journalism Lab – parte dalla considerazione che: i documenti sono la base del giornalismo investigativo, ma le [...]

[...] progetto – spiega un articolo del Nieman Journalism Lab – parte dalla considerazione che: i documenti sono la base del giornalismo investigativo, ma [...]

[...] Blog: Changing Media Landscape at Columbia 7:23 p.m. Sewell: Mentions Knight News Challenge Grant in conjunction with ProPublica and Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes [...]

And while we’re on the topic of possibly odd arrangements, what’s the deal with NewsU offering incentives to its users to write testimonials (“We’re giving away prizes for the best stories that are submitted”), to use in order to get more funding? Is this a legitimate tactic?