Archives: 2013

Caroline O'DonovanMarch 11, 2013
Evgeny Morozov on newspapers as value system
Jillian StonecipherMarch 11, 2013
A proposed Texas law would promote correcting incorrect news, online and off
If passed, the bill would require a plaintiff give publishers the opportunity to correct, clarify, or withdraw false information in order to receive punitive damages in a defamation lawsuit — and it would apply to online media.
OpenNews Learning wants to provide lessons to developers in and out of newsrooms
The latest project from the Knight-Mozilla collaboration is a set of online case studies written by developers and designers working in journalism. Justin Ellis
Joshua BentonMarch 11, 2013
What happens when you daypart The Wall Street Journal
Caroline O'DonovanMarch 11, 2013
Monday Q&A: EFF’s Jillian York on just-in-time censorship, scaling connectors, and the problem with banning porn
“When you’re writing, especially journalism internationally, there is sort of a lack of cognizance around the facts that you’re not writing solely for an American audience anymore.”
Caroline O'DonovanMarch 8, 2013
OpenGenderTracker finds women’s voices are well represented among Global Voices bloggers
Caroline O'DonovanMarch 8, 2013
“We’re going to tell people how to interview databases”: The rise of data (big and small) in journalism
Kenneth Cukier, coauthor of “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think,” applies his findings to his position as data editor of The Economist.
Mark CoddingtonMarch 8, 2013
This Week in Review: The ethics of freelancing for free, and Facebook’s filtered News Feed
Plus: The Washington Post drops its ombudsman position, a new News Corp. sports venture, and the rest of the week in the future of news.
The newsonomics of Why Paywalls Now?
Paywalls are generating real money for American newspapers in 2013. But would they have in 2007, or 2002, or 1997? Ken Doctor
Joshua BentonMarch 7, 2013
AOL’s Tim Armstrong: “The outside world — especially the journalism world — pounds on Patch”
Justin EllisMarch 7, 2013
Dallas Morning News partners with local government group to gather clean, universal crime data
A grant from Knight’s Prototype Fund will pay for a council of North Texas governments to render crime data from dozens of sources into a format journalists and the public can use.
Caroline O'DonovanMarch 7, 2013
Knight funds tools to fight street harassment, gender imbalance, and data without context
Those grants, and five others, come from Knight’s Prototype Fund, its quick-turn tool for funding the testing of new ideas.
Joshua BentonMarch 6, 2013
A good Branch conversation on paying freelancers
Joshua BentonMarch 6, 2013
To pay or not to pay: The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal lays out the options
Chrys WuMarch 6, 2013
Data science, commoditized backends, and the need to know code: A roundup of NICAR 2013
The annual gathering of data journalists, stats junkies, and other assorted investigators just wrapped up in Louisville. Here are some of the highlights from Chrys Wu’s annual summary.
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