Comments on: Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism

By: danielknox.net » Data / analytics focus at ONA09

danielknox.net » Data / analytics focus at ONA09 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:17:14 +0000

[...] of DocumentCloud, the Knight News Challenge-funded investigative journalism tool that plans to “turn documents into data”. The ‘data’ part of DocumentCloud is powered by OpenCalais. The semantic processing [...]

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

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:12:39 +0000

[...] co-founder, who was at the conference, to chat about what they’ve been up to since winning a two-year $719,500 grant from the Knight Foundation. That video is above, and I’ll add a [...]

By: A Guardian crowdsourcing update » Nieman Journalism Lab

A Guardian crowdsourcing update » Nieman Journalism Lab — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:25:27 +0000

[...] Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times (and DocumentCloud) notes the crucial role Amazon’s EC2 plays in projects like these: “Even more than a [...]

By: Knight News Challenge: A tool to push old stories to new media » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:01:35 +0000

[...] video or audio, Boydston said.) “You might think of the CMS uploader as poor man’s DocumentCloud,” Boydston said, “but only in that it facilitates the creation of an easy to use, [...]

By: DocumentCloud is “turning documents int… « Paul M. Watson

DocumentCloud is “turning documents int… « Paul M. Watson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:04:26 +0000

[...] 12:04 pm on June 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply Tags: media (40) DocumentCloud is “turning documents into data” with a focus on all the research journalists do to [...]

By: Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:05:39 +0000

[...] reasoning behind that? And also they were a few on the stage today — what is the locality for DocumentCloud? It seems like there’s some fudginess about how local some of the winners might [...]

By: links for 2009-06-18 « Amy G. Dala

links for 2009-06-18 « Amy G. Dala — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:04:42 +0000

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By: Investigative journalism on 18 June 09 « The Centre for Investigative Journalism News Blog

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:31:22 +0000

[...] Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism [...]

By: Have You Heard The News? Did You Get The Truth About It? « SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:34:52 +0000

[...] DocumentCloud, a project by the New York Times and the non-profit ProPublica, is creating an easily searchable, free, public online database of public records. [...]

By: Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009 » Nieman Journalism Lab

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:16:36 +0000

[...] — DocumentCloud, $719,500 for a ProPublica/New York Times effort to open up the documents reporters and advocates use in their work. (Read more in Zach’s post.) [...]