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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica
Here's a how-to on how to scrape websites for content for further analysis.
howto  journalism 
april 2011 by McChris
Data journalism broken down: what we do to the data before you see it | visualised | News | guardian.co.uk
The Guardian shares its workflow for creating visualization applications. Most of the work lies in cleaning up the data.
visualization  journalism 
april 2011 by McChris
The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange - NYTimes.com
Bill Keller provides a behind-the-scenes account of the relationship between the Gray Lady and Wikileaks.
wikileaks  journalism  ethics 
february 2011 by McChris
Social Design Notes: Water Table
design  journalism  development  information_design  weird 
may 2008 by McChris
Huffington Post: The Ascendancy of Barack Obama in Small Town America
Alec Baldwin points out a satirical column in his hometown paper in Long Island. The column, penned by "YoMama Bin Barack" plays to racist stereotypes of blacks to undermine his presidential run. It's rather stunning to see something this racist in a new
whiteness  racism  journalism  whoa 
february 2008 by McChris
Dan Gilmor: Needed: Regulation to Prevent Journalists-Turned-Professors from Embarrassing Themselves
The citizen media maven makes some compelling arguments against the idea that journalism is a profession. I tend to agree, although things like the Newspaper Guild and governmental press passes to create boundaries between the press and the public.
citizensmedia  journalism 
december 2007 by McChris
FOX News Porn
Robert Greenwald has collected tacky moments on Fox News, suggesting its content is indecent.
cable  journalism  indecency  FCC 
november 2007 by McChris
Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law
This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm posting it here for future reference. The Kent State example is particularly interesting.
photoshop  journalism  history  thereal  epistemology 
november 2007 by McChris
E&P: FEMA Staffers Posed As Reporters at Press Briefing
At a press conference for information about the fires blazing across Southern California, "the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters," rather than reporters themselves.
FEMA  disaster  journalism  publicrelations 
october 2007 by McChris
Austin Chronicle: The Death of Brad Will
This article discusses the murder of Will by Mexican paramillitaries almost a year after his death.
indymedia  journalism  Mexico  Oaxaca 
august 2007 by McChris
Time Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason
Al Gore uses a tacit "strong effects" argument in this piece blaming television for eroding public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV  publicsphere  technology 
may 2007 by McChris
Broadcasting & Cable: The Groaning of Al Gore
Responding to Al Gore's anti-TV editorial, the trade magazine contends that journalism across the board is responsible for the quality of public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV 
may 2007 by McChris
Calif. Web site outsources reporting
It's worth pointing out the difference between "outsourcing" and "offshoring" here. Newspapers are outsourcing when they hire a stringer to cover the city council meeting; they're offshoring when they hire writers in India to watch them online.
stupid  globalization  India  journalism  offshoring 
may 2007 by McChris
Magazine covers: good contrarian indicators
Lunch over IP points to research that suggests companies are peaking when they appear on the covers of business magazines.
journalism  business  magazine 
may 2007 by McChris
LAPD attacked journalists and protesters at immigration rallly
It appears the LAPD failed to give the largely Spanish-speaking crowd orders to disperse in Spanish before shooting rubber bullets into a crowd with children present.
immigration  stupid  journalism  lawenforcement 
may 2007 by McChris
Josh Wolf Turns Over Tapes, Released
I guess I'm a little disappointed to see Wolf back down, but he's been held longer than any US journalist in history.
indymedia  lawenforcement  journalism 
april 2007 by McChris
CJR: How TalkingPointsMemo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story
Columbia Journalism Review examines how TalkingPointsMemo was able to once again push a story into the mainstream media. I was surprised to hear the US Attorney firings on cable news, after I had been reading it on TPM for so long.
journalism  politics  blog 
march 2007 by McChris
Washingtonian: Has Success Spoiled NPR?
This long feature examines NPR's struggle to maintain a balance between its historical identity and its efforts to find new audiences. Once the organization began programming like a commercial media group, it alienated longtime listeners.
podcasting  journalism  radio  NPR 
march 2007 by McChris
Newspaper founded in 1645 to become Web-only
newspaper  journalism  end-of-life  oldmedia 
february 2007 by McChris
InformationWeek Weblog: Ban The Analysts! Or Not?
A reporter from the venerable trade magazine explains her position on the analyst issue. I tend to agree that some analysts are beholden to a particular platform, while others will entertainingly talk trash about a company or product.
journalism  ethics  business 
december 2006 by McChris
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
This Register story is fairly interesting - I don't think it should be a surprise that many analyst firms are shills for the companies they discuss, but the NYTimes probably should have a different set of standards than the trades.
journalism  ethics  business 
december 2006 by McChris
Dan Gillmor: The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist
I'm really struck by how pervasive cameras are these days. It seems like a third of people at a protest or a party are taking photographs. Gillmor suggests that the profusion of cameras will erode the professional role of photogs.
journalism  photography  JFK  Web2.0 
december 2006 by McChris
Statesman.com: Austinites wed in middle of Oaxaca rebellion
I had more to say about this stupid article about two Austinites who "tied the knot Tuesday night in Oaxaca city in the midst of an anti-government rebellion." Thanks for the local angle and little information, Statesman!
Oaxaca  Mexico  journalism  stupid 
november 2006 by McChris
Houston Chronicle: Friends say death illustrates role of independent media
A New York Indymedia reporter covering the teachers' strike in Oaxaca was killed by right-wing paramilitaries last week.
Oaxaca  Mexico  indymedia  journalism  labor  education 
october 2006 by McChris
Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Citizen Journalism
MediaShift has a lightweight overview of what Dan Gillmor calls "citizen media." I'm teaching a class on what media studies folks call alternative media, and this would have been nice to have at the start of the semester.
citizensmedia  journalism  blog  indymedia  useful  wiki 
september 2006 by McChris
Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
Post-mortem on Wired News' experiment with wiki journalism.
wiki  journalism 
september 2006 by McChris
Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism
"So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?" Thanks for articulating this, Mr. Steven Berlin Johnson; now let's move on to wikis and Wikipedia.
blog  journalism  citizensmedia  thereal 
august 2006 by McChris
Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
In my opinion, Wikipedia's struggles to provide quality information about breaking news aren't any worse than the mainstream media's, but a Reuters reporter apparently thinks so.
wikipedia  news  citizensmedia  journalism 
july 2006 by McChris
Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?
This is a really interesting transcript of a talk about changes in the news media. It starts by discussing the checkered past of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
newspaper  journalism  citizensmedia  history 
july 2006 by McChris
Record meteorite hit Norway - Aftenposten.no
A meteorite strikes Norway with force comparable to the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima, and I learn of it through blogs, rather than TV news? Damn corporate media.. I guess they were too busy reporting on Natalee Holloway.
disaster  news  journalism 
june 2006 by McChris
Jon Udell: Earth to Google PR
I don't have the geek chops that Mr. Udell has, but stuff like this would happen all too frequently when I was writing for computer magazines.
journalism  publicrelations  google  humor 
june 2006 by McChris
Unpacking My Library: Lexis Nexis to Add Blogs
The venerable database service is adding blogs to the content it hosts, adding a whole new level to blog metrification.
blog  news  journalism  archive 
april 2006 by McChris
Powers of misperception at Outis
The Miami Herald runs a photograph of a high school student in a T-shirt that says "Mexico," just to have the image of a Mexican jumping a fence.
journalism  photography  thereal  globalization  immigration  newspaper 
april 2006 by McChris
Wiki attacks join political warfare - OrlandoSentinel.com
Stupid non-news article revealing that Wikipedia articles on politicians are often sites of edit wars. Is Wikipedia doing a bad job of letting readers know it's an open-content project? Why do these lame stories keep coming out?
wikipedia  wiki  stupid  journalism 
march 2006 by McChris
McClatchy Absorbing (Most of) Knight Ridder
Dan Gillmor's thoughtful post on the sale of K-R and the unbundling of major papers like the San Jose Mercury-News and Philadelphia Inquirer.
journalism  newspaper  oldmedia 
march 2006 by McChris
From Dan: A Letter to the Bayosphere Community
Dan Gilmor acknowledges the business failure of his Bayosphere community media project.
media  blog  citizensmedia  journalism 
january 2006 by McChris
The Austin Chronicle: News: Snoring Out Loud
article about the local paper's blogging experiments
austin  blog  journalism 
january 2006 by McChris

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