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Articles tagged Tow-Knight Center (7)

Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 21, 2017

“The Internet hates secrets”: Clear Health Costs works with newsrooms to bring healthcare costs out of hiding

“We think of this as a perfect use case for journalism — finding real, good information and displaying it back to the public.”

How to follow today’s CUNY summit on membership strategies online

Publishers of local news sites say revenues are up, but many still aren’t paying themselves a salary

From Nieman Reports: How journalism schools are trying to connect classroom to newsroom

“Journalism education has come to the same ominous inflection point that journalism itself has reached — and the stakes are just as high.” Jon Marcus

Jan SchafferJuly 10, 2013

In New Jersey, a university teams up with local news orgs to collaborate for impact

Montclair State’s Center for Cooperative Media is betting there are returns on getting newspapers, broadcasters, bloggers, and wire services all in the same building.

Man reading a newspaper next to man reading news on a Kindle

Andrew PhelpsApril 5, 2012

A new framework for innovation in journalism: How a computer scientist would do it

Nick Diakopolous, in a new report from CUNY, argues that journalism is a lot like computer science, since both are fundamentally concerned with information.