All entries tagged: Gotham Gazette

Knight News Challenge: Six rules for local wikis, from the newest open-government project in New York

[Our series profiling winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge continues with Michael Andersen writing about Gotham Gazette's grant for a local wiki called Councilpedia. —Josh]
Every newsroom’s got them: A few dozen gadflies who’ve been in town forever and are proud to have their favorite reporters on speed-dial.
The little team at New York City’s Web-only [...]

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

The Knight News Challenge’s biggest winner, with a two-year grant of $719,500, is DocumentCloud, the primary-source index conceived by journalists and developers at ProPublica and The New York Times. Here’s why you should care: There’s good reason to believe the project will transform how some investigative journalism is conducted — and who conducts it.
Like a [...]