Camille Utterback: Tripod intern makes good
One of the most interesting clubs in the world must be the society of MacArthur fellows. The MacArthur foundation awards a set of grants –… Read More »Camille Utterback: Tripod intern makes good
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Clay Shirky and accountability journalism
NYU Professor Clay Shirky published an essay, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable“, that suggested that journalists needed to radically rethink the assumptions that have made… Read More »Clay Shirky and accountability journalism
Google Books and big data
Google’s Mathew Gray has been playing with data sets for a long time. He’s the author of the world’s first known web spider, and he’s… Read More »Google Books and big data
Amanda Michel on Distributed Reporting
Amanda Michel, the Director of Distributed Reporting at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news agency, explains to IBM’s Transparent Text symposium, how her newsroom is using… Read More »Amanda Michel on Distributed Reporting
DocumentCloud – improving search for journalists
Aron Pilhofer and Jeremy Ashkenas introduce DocumentCloud, a powerful new tool for journalists, bloggers and activists at IBM’s Transparent Text symposium. On the abstract level,… Read More »DocumentCloud – improving search for journalists
Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller at Transparent Text
Ellen Miller, the founder of the Sunlight Foundation, wants to redefine public information as online information. To have government accountability, we need “information for media… Read More »Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller at Transparent Text