The team behind the celebrated Homicide Watch D.C. has expanded into other communities before, but now they’re moving into new subject matter. It’ll be a test of their model.
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Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.
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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.
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Phelps, Andrew. "Homicide Watch D.C., buoyed by big growth, seeks a new home in a local newsroom." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Sep. 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
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Phelps, A. (2011, Sep. 8). Homicide Watch D.C., buoyed by big growth, seeks a new home in a local newsroom. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/09/homicide-watch-d-c-buoyed-by-big-growth-seeks-a-new-home-in-a-local-newsroom/
Chicago
Phelps, Andrew. "Homicide Watch D.C., buoyed by big growth, seeks a new home in a local newsroom." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 8, 2011. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/09/homicide-watch-d-c-buoyed-by-big-growth-seeks-a-new-home-in-a-local-newsroom/.
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