February 2012
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NICAR 12 Brings the Love--and the Code
I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those that don’t know, NICAR stands for “National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting,” and, as the slightly-antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before the commercial internet, back in 1989. Traditionally, the organization (which is run by IRE, Investigative Reporters and...
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OpenNews: We Want to Hack With You
Two weeks ago, I announced the rebranding and retooling of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. Now it’s time to start delving a little deeper into some of the aspects of the project that need you to reach their full potential.
So let’s talk about OpenNews Hack Days.
Last fall, when writing about the need for hackdays in the journalism community, I wrote about some of the news...
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Misleading Promises Worth Repeating: Thoughts on...
Yesterday the Chicago Reader broke the story that the Chicago News Cooperative, the non-profit journalism outfit that launched in late 2009 with a big pile of MacArthur cash and a contract to supply the New York Times with twice-weekly Chicago coverage, will suspend operations at the end of the month.
As someone who held high hopes for the CNC when it launched back in the fall of 2009, I wish I...
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The Knight-Mozilla Partnership Evolves
Change is awesome—it’s a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it’s with real excitement that today I’m announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.
Before we get to the changes, some quick background: Conversations around the original Partnership began in 2010, with the...