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Breaking news online: How two Pulitzer finalists used the web
As we noted yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news went to The New York Times for its coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal. But since breaking news is perhaps the one area where Internet...
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KNC 2010: NewsGraf wants to slap a search box on journalists’ brains
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The Knight News Challenge closed submissions for the 2010 awards last night at midnight, which means that another batch of great ideas, interesting concepts, and harebrained schemes...
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California Watch: The latest entrant in the dot-org journalism boom
“Ten years ago,” says Mark Katches, editorial director of California Watch, “there were 85 reporters covering the California state house; today there are fewer than 25.” Katches sees California Watch,...
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The Guardian launches governmental pledge-tracking tool
Since it came to office nearly 100 days ago, Britain’s coalition government — a team-up between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats that had the potential to be awkward and ineffective, but has...
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L.A. Times’ controversial teacher database attracted traffic and got funding...
Not so long ago, a hefty investigative series from the Los Angeles Times might have lived its life in print, starting on a Monday and culminating with abig package in the Sunday paper. But the web...
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Eric Schmidt: Google wants to get so smart it can answer your questions...
Last night, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt spoke at this year’s iteration of the D: All Things Digital conference. And while coverage of the talk focused on subjects like Google’s frenemies...
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The News Challenge-winning PANDA Project aims to make research easier in the...
In an ideal world, when news breaks, reporters can fall back on their encyclopedic knowledge of local stories, events, and people to put the news in context. And failing that, they can turn to...
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News Challenge winner OpenBlock Rural plans to partner with smaller papers on...
Small rural papers can have a level of reader engagement that would be the envy of their larger peers. If you’re the newspaper of a town with 12,000 or so people — like, say, The Washington Daily News...
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Recovers.org builds a platform to structure data to improve local diaster relief
During an emergency, one of any community’s most important asset is information. And that’s at least as true in the period after an emergency. When a flood sweeps through the streets or a hurricane...
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Tuesday Q&A: Amanda Zamora on participation metrics, deeper engagement, and...
When Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post for ProPublica last year, she said wanted to get back to her true love — social media. She also saw it as an opportunity to step back from the real-time...
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Tuesday Q&A: Rafat Ali on Skift, combining mobile and social, and becoming a...
The dream of travel — hopping on a plane to exotic or unknown destinations — is a dream of possibility. Rafat Ali sees that possibility through the lens of business. Skift, Ali’s travel news and...
View ArticleMonday Q&A: Denise Malan on the new data-driven collaboration between INN and...
Every news organization wishes it could have more reporters with data skills on staff. But not every news organization can afford to make data a priority — and even those that do can sometimes find the...
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