Category: Future of News
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Explainer: Why do reporters need shield laws?
What is a shield law, exactly? When can a government official require a reporter to disclose sources or information? Who counts as a journalist under a shield law? What types of sources or information are protected? Is there a big difference between a subpoena and a search warrant? by Jonathon Peters CJR This is a…
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Display of information
From Digiday, an interview with Alan Smith, data-visualization editor The team has also started using a new tool to boost efficiency: D3, an open-source visualization library that allows staff to create different versions of graphics in one go, which can then easily be used for print, online and social media. (via The Financial Times guide to data…
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Reflection on accuracy in journalism & Judith Miller
Judith Miller was invited to speak at SPJ back in 2005. I was still getting used to being a journalist, and I couldn’t believe the way many of the traditional journalists just took what she said as gospel. She seemed like a shill for the Bush administration to me; a beltway sycophant. Despite persuading…
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A spreadsheet
rows columns cells formula or value view displays the collection by its attributes let’s you sort and select subsets of the collection sets up your collection so you can map or visualize its elements
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The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor: Scientific American
Google received a patent on technology that lets a company dynamically price electronic content. For instance, it can push the base price of an e-book up if it determines you are more likely to buy that particular item than an average user; conversely, it can adjust the price down as an incentive if you are…
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RebelMouse is Catching On
My RebelMouse is up. I’ve seen others now. Makes you an auto-updated social front page.
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AJ goes to Texas. The passing of an era. I remember well the ALS game with the dropped third strike. Norm and Herb were at the game and had to call me at home because Ed Farmer and DJ were talking about what the call was. AJ will be missed by me among other fans.…
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Branch: Superman Quitting the Newspaper to be a Blogger
http://embed-script.branch.com/assets/embed/embed.m.js?body=0 Superman quits his job on The Daily Planet to become online…
Barbara K Iverson 
