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Articles tagged public data (12)

Journalists from rival outlets are pursuing the dream of “pluggable data,” partnering to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign finance and lobbying data.
Plus: The fallout of government surveillance, mugshot extortion, a Philly newspaper flap, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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.
Plus: The fallout from one newspaper’s publication of gun-permit data, the NYT’s Snow Fall and multimedia journalism, and the rest of the week’s media news.
For one community newspaper (and journalism school teaching lab), outside donations quickly helped pay for access to public data.
June 24, 2011
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