ProPublica experiments with “show your work”

LINK: www.propublica.org ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | December 15, 2011

Check out this Marshall Allen ProPublica story and switch on “Explore Sources.” Cited facts get a highlight and an an onclick popup showing the DocumentCloud annotation that supports it. Pretty cool. Built by Al Shaw on the ProPublica end and Ted Han on the DocCloud end.

Two thoughts: The hooks built for this are available to other DocumentCloud users to build similar tools. (ProPublica plans on open sourcing the annotizer, but it may be a while.) And this on/off UI makes me think it could be useful to built a generic UI for this sort of optional annotation (with links to supporting documents instead of embeds).

Show tags

Sarah Scire and Sophie Culpepper

“Some hard and important lessons”: One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead

The National Trust for Local News is a nonprofit organization with a mission so important even its harshest critics want it to succeed.

Joshua Benton

Jeffrey Goldberg got the push notification of all push notifications — and a hell of a story

His inclusion on a high-level Signal chat about American war plans highlights how the Trump administration is operating — and how much of a threat it is to a free press.

Joshua Benton

There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)

At a time of increasing polarization and rigid ideologies, the L.A. Times has decided it wants to make its opinion pieces less persuasive to readers by increasing the cost of changing your mind.

Leave a comment