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Honolulu Civil Beat - FACT CHECK — Abercrombie: 'We're The Only Species That Make Judgments On Ourselves' - Fact Check
"This is, again, only my opinion — I think these gorillas are seeing that there's danger being perpetrated on them in these particular areas, and because of that, they're gradually migrating to these safer zones." Assuming the apes are, in fact, changing their behavior based off their environment, they're not alone.(Re)Structuring Journalism
The machine-writing capabilities of Narrative Science have been well covered , and pretty much every (human-written) story on the subject has mused – nervously – about the replacement of journalists by algorithms. So, too, does a new piece in Wired ; but this one takes the discussion a step further – and points to a future where collaboration between machines and humans can enrich not just news but newsrooms as well.
The newsroom of the community health website WellCommons.com is located in The World Company’s offices in Lawrence, Kansas. Photo by Jane Stevens. In April 2010, The World Company, a family-owned news organization in Lawrence, Kansas (population 88,000), launched WellCommons , created to be the community's health site.
Nieman Reports | Health Draws a Community Together Online
Much like a geocache , we will provide coordinates that may be used to navigate to the recorded location of a California landscape photo taken by USGS in the 1920’s and 30’s.
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CoolCalifornia.org is THE new one-stop-shop for all Californians - packed with quick, easy-to-use and reliable tools that all Californians need to save money and reduce their impact on the climate.
About Us | Cool California
Present and past: Alhambra Source editor Daniela Gerson is a community journalist as was the late Warner Jenkins, editor of the now-defunct Alhambra Post-Advocate, whom the city honored with a statue. Photo by Tom Shea.
Nieman Reports | Reporting Pushes Past Language and Ethnic Divides
Patch.com can blow you away with numbers. From about 50 outposts a year ago, the company now has 827 hyper-local websites spread across 20 states. Nearly 1,000 journalists post 5,000 articles a day.
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A group of researchers, software developers and environmentalists has introduced an online tool designed to track what's happening in Pennsylvania's rapidly expanding natural gas industry. FracTracker.org is not a typical website, packed with data that a user must examine to get information, according to its backers.
Website tracks shale drillers - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Highlights from SXSW: 7 steps to building trust and credibility with an online audience | Poynter.
Doreen Marchionni spent the last four years studying how journalists can boost their credibility and engagement with digital audiences.
Patch has gotten somewhat of a bad reputation in journalism circles — remember when USC journalism professor Robert Hernandez asked Tim Armstrong if Patch is “evil” at 2010′s Online News Association conference?
Five Things AOL’s Patch Is Doing Right - 10,000 Words
At the 2011 Media Learning Seminar , an annual gathering hosted by the Knight Foundation, hundreds of community foundation leaders and journalism and technology experts previewed the beta version of the Community Information Toolkit , a set of tools and steps designed to help communities take stock of their news and information flow and take actionable steps to improve it. We are very pleased to report these tools are now available online and already being tested in communities across the country. The Toolkit derives from the checklist appearing in Appendix I of Informing Communities , and has been developed under the leadership of Mayur Patel of the Knight Foundation in partnership with the Monitor Institute and the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The Community Information Toolkit, Version 1.0 | KnightComm
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