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Filling in the blanks on DocumentCloud

My OJR post on DocumentCloud, the much-buzzed-about $1-million Knight News Challenge grant proposal, is up. I did an e-mail interview with three of the proposal's authors, Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times and Scott Klein and Eric Umansky of ProPublica. Here's an excerpt: Aron Pilhofer: The grant would be used ...

Making sense of data at The New York Times

(After a long holiday hiatus, I'm finally getting around to posting this write-up of my visit with Aron Pilhofer at the NYT.) Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008: The digital art installation in the lobby of the new New York Times building says more, I think, about the future of news and of ...

March 6th 2010
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Checking in from Canada

In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
November 9th 2009
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Posted here and there

The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months: Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
October 2nd 2009
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What would you teach aspiring journalists about the internet?

It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course. I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...
September 2nd 2009
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Police radio play-by-play lands German Twitterer in trouble

I did this online journalism-related write-up last week for Spiegel International. It didn't run there, so I'm posting it here (with permission, of course): When a 71-year-old pensioner killed three people and wounded a fourth in a shooting spree last month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police response unfolded in real time ...
August 22nd 2009
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Search trends and geography

I know it's been around for a year or more now, but I still can't stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It's a trend-spotter's dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential ...