Comments on: ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online

By: What Happens to Reporters’ Primary Sources in a Digital World? « Predicate, LLC | Editorial + Content Strategy

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:40:58 +0000

[...] 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 … [...]

By: DocumentCloud adds impressive list of investigative-journalism outfits » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:10:31 +0000

[...] 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 — [...]

By: Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:02:01 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Live Blog: Changing Media Landscape at Columbia University | News Startup

Thu, 14 May 2009 04:48:32 +0000

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

By: A deep breath… - okiejournalist.net

A deep breath… - okiejournalist.net — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:55:16 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Chat wrap-up: College newspaper collaboration – Innovation in College Media

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:02:07 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Anna Haynes

Anna Haynes — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:34:53 +0000

Just ran across something from Ask Metafilter, that might be relevant -

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…)

By: Resources for documentary research, or what the Old Pros can teach New Media « UMass Journalism Professors Blog

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:23 +0000

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

By: links for 2008-11-27 | I’ve Said Too Much

links for 2008-11-27 | I’ve Said Too Much — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:39:37 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Dadblog » links for 2008-11-27

Dadblog » links for 2008-11-27 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:03:06 +0000

By: DocumentCloud: The innovation $1m in Knight money could buy » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:38:11 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: LediNews » Document Cloud, un archivio per i documenti a rischio di oblio

LediNews » Document Cloud, un archivio per i documenti a rischio di oblio — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:04 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: LSDI : Document Cloud, un archivio per i documenti a rischio di oblio

LSDI : Document Cloud, un archivio per i documenti a rischio di oblio — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:26:10 +0000

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

By: Running Design - Friendly and Speedy New York City Web Shop » Blog Archive » Live Blog: Changing Media Landscape at Columbia

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:26:20 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:53:02 +0000

Does ProPublica editor-in-chief Paul Steiger’s Knight Foundation trusteeship constitute a conflict of interest? How about Knight Foundation president & CEO Alberto Ibargüen’s position on the ProPublica board?

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?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:22:28 +0000

I wonder how this would compare&contrast to the UCSF tobacco documents archive. If it’s just duplicating effort, bad. But if it’d make a job like that much easier…
(Here’s hoping we get to put many more such document sets online in future.)

By: Opera Tronickss » Blog Archive

Opera Tronickss » Blog Archive — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:52:09 +0000

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online (Nieman Lab)… Snip from a Nieman Journalism Lab blog post about an interesting application in this year’s Knight News Challenge: The pioneering [...]

By: Links 11/05/2008 : Gerard Barberi

Links 11/05/2008 : Gerard Barberi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:59:58 +0000

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing… [...]

By: links for 2008-11-04 : Gerard Barberi

links for 2008-11-04 : Gerard Barberi — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:04:13 +0000

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing… I don't think believe those "innovations" listed by NYT are very innovative. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.niemanlab.org%2F2008%2F11%2Fpropublica-seeks-1m-to-put-everyones-documents-online (tags: myblog journalism nytimes knight_news) [...]

By: NYT and ProPublica seek $1 million to put news source docs online | The Current Buzz - Tech

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:00:44 +0000

[...] November 4th, 2008 | Fun Tech Snip from a Nieman Journalism Lab blog post about an interesting application in this year’s Knight News Challenge: The pioneering [...]

By: Build the Echo » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-04

Build the Echo » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-04 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:05:26 +0000

[...] ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing… Document Cloud: an experiment worth keeping an eye on (tags: buildtheecho impact rebirth_of_journalism) [...]

By: Six newspapers in Ohio to drop their Monday print editions/NYT & ProPublica apply for Knight News Challenge $ « Media history…in the making

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:15:15 +0000

[...] point of interest: ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online through the Knight News Challenge. I am surprised to see such a well-known name apply for this [...]

By: Gabriel Sama

Gabriel Sama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:27:04 +0000

I sent a somewhat similar proposal, although as an individual mine is not as complete as the Times one. I wonder how the judges will tackle ideas that overlap. Mine is called Acceso (Access in Spanish) and targets Mexico City.

http://tinyurl.com/5w5j8o

My other two ideas that are still in competition are:
News-Point: http://tinyurl.com/6dwagg
Crimesourcing: http://tinyurl.com/6hvkf4
Hope to read your comments. Thanks,
Gabriel Sama

By: David Poulson

David Poulson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:32:28 +0000

With an invitation like that, I’m sure you’ll be flooded by applicants looking for exposure. But I think we have nifty idea. It ties state level campaign finance reports with the votes of state lawmakers and with bill analyses. It emphasizes the impact of multi-state political contributions on regional environmental policy. See:
http://tinyurl.com/5heo6r

By: David Poulson

David Poulson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:24:09 +0000

Intriguing concept. Puzzling how it has already made it to the second round when the deadline was just Saturday.

By: Fred Howell

Fred Howell — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:53:48 +0000

For online annotation & collaboration on PDFs / Word docs in the browser there’s also A.nnotate.com (our service) – some other tools like google and amazon book search also use the technique of rendering documents as images to make them render quickly on the web without waiting for the whole document to download and separate viewer plugins to start up.

A number of flash-based document sites have appeared recently too – like scribd / docstoc / edocr – but these don’t do much more than display the document in a flash panel, which doesn’t seem like such a big win over having a link to a pdf.

By: Defining who the Knight News Challenge is for » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:54:59 +0000

[...] Jay Rosen doesn’t seem too thrilled by the ProPublica/NYT application for the Knight News Challenge — at least based on his Twittering [...]

By: Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-02

Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-02 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:00:46 +0000

[...] ProPublica seeks $1M to put everyone’s documents online ProPublica wants to fund a big doc dump. Good use of $$, smart journalism. NYTs API meets Sunlight Foundation. (tags: new.media pro.publica journalism non.profit transparency) [...]