“It’s basically like with anything that you do in media: Is it interesting? Is it easily accessible? Is it compelling? Are there reasons for me to come back?”
Through the collaborative reporting project Electionland, outlets from across the country are coming together to report on issues like voter ID laws and long wait times.
It was for an experiment measuring information overload: “There’s a conversation going on between me and my listeners, but I want to make it as frictionless as possible for them to get their thoughts and worries to us.”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "The cicadas are coming: WNYC’s tracker is the latest sign of the rise of sensor news networks." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Mar. 2013. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
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O'Donovan, C. (2013, Mar. 19). The cicadas are coming: WNYC’s tracker is the latest sign of the rise of sensor news networks. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/the-cicadas-are-coming-wnycs-tracker-is-the-latest-sign-of-the-rise-of-sensor-news-networks/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "The cicadas are coming: WNYC’s tracker is the latest sign of the rise of sensor news networks." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 19, 2013. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/the-cicadas-are-coming-wnycs-tracker-is-the-latest-sign-of-the-rise-of-sensor-news-networks/.
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