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. "When human measures for intelligence are applied to other species, dolphins come in just behind humans in brainpower," Discovery News reported last year. "Dolphins demonstrate skills and awareness previously thought to be present only in humans.
" The article discusses research by Lori Marino, a lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University. According to Marino, dolphins are capable of human-like skills. "These include mirror self-recognition, cultural learning, comprehension of symbol-based communication systems, and an understanding of abstract concepts," the article states. (Re)Structuring Journalism. Health Draws a Community Together Online. 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.
Cal-Adapt. Coming soon!
Cool California. What is CoolCalifornia.org's mission?
Our mission is to provide all Californians with the tools they need to take action to protect the climate and keep California cool. Why was CoolCalifornia.org developed? CoolCalifornia.org’s partner organizations seek to empower Californians to improve the State’s future and protect its environment. Reporting Pushes Past Language and Ethnic Divides. 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. Municipal elections were canceled last fall in Alhambra, California, a predominantly Asian and Latino city located about eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles. This is the first time that people there can remember this happening. City officials say this means that residents are satisfied; why else would no one have challenged any of the five incumbents on the city council and school board who were up for re-election?
LAT on Patch.com. 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. Marcellus Shale from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Website tracks shale drillers. 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.
Highlights from SXSW: 7 steps to building trust and credibility with an online audience. Doreen Marchionni spent the last four years studying how journalists can boost their credibility and engagement with digital audiences.
She found the simple secret: Interact online and be human. However, she says, it takes more than simply having a Twitter account and posting story links. Five Things AOL’s Patch Is Doing Right. 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?
For those of you who have been living under a rock, Patch is AOL’s local news initiative that now has more than 500 sites in 20 different states. The Community Information Toolkit, Version 1.0. Curbwise.com - Douglas County home sales and property valuations. Visualizing California Climate Change. An engrossing one-stop shop for California’s climate future goes online If you’re like me, and you spend a good part of every day thinking about climate change and California, you may have already lost yourself in the treasure trove of climate data and mapping fun that is Cal-Adapt, a comprehensive series of online tools just released by the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission.
And if you’re not like me, it’s still worth checking out. Built by UC Berkeley’s Geospatial Innovation Facility, Cal-Adapt is designed to aid local and regional planners in preparing to adapt to climate change by providing scientific data from institutions like Scripps Institute of Oceanography, U.S. Times launching database that maps, analyzes crime reports across L.A. County. For car thieves working the streets of Los Angeles County, few stretches of pavement are more attractive than the two blocks of Alondra Boulevard that run from the 605 Freeway to Studebaker Road. At least 20 vehicles were stolen there in a recent six-month period. 10 Common features found on hyperlocal news sites.
2008 and 2009 saw an explosion in the number of hyperlocal news media around the world. Since then, hyperlocal media has matured and many news sites now offer similar features that both distribute and aggregate news from their respective communities. Community voices Hyperlocal news sites often capture the thoughts and voices of their community of readers through blog posts and articles written by citizen journalists or local bloggers. The Seattle PostGlobe is one such hyperlocal site incorporating this approach. Story submission page. 10 Ways Journalism Around the World Is Being Revived and Reinvented. Prepping for a session for the International Press Institute (IPI) annual congress last week in Vienna, I asked the panelists, among other things, to describe a media trend they find encouraging.
In addressing the same question, I found myself hooked by an idea that has no metrics but seems quite real nonetheless: a significant shift in attention from the diminishment of journalism to its rediscovery and reinvention. This sort of epiphany arrives at different times for different people; many digital pioneers have declared as much for years. The turning point for me came in the 152-page report on the future of news that I edited for IPI along with Poynter Online Director Julie Moos. The report, “Brave News Worlds: Navigating the New Media Landscape,” was published last week. The 42 essays were written by news executives, leaders of nonprofits, digital thought leaders and educators from more than 20 countries. Spotted... Innovations in Community News. Journalism Lives - How interactivity is improving the news.
___________Welcome________ David Herzog, Donald W. Reynolds Fellow COLUMBIA, Mo. – Despite a dramatic increase of available information due to the prevalence of the Internet, many important government records and data are still not readily accessible for citizens and journalists to view online. In an effort to improve the transparency in state and local government and encourage the use of data by citizens, journalists and businesses, David Herzog , a 2010-2011 Donald W.
Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) Fellow, has created Open Missouri , a website that helps make Missouri government data more accessible to those who wish to access it. Your Eye on the Capitol. From crowdfunding to data-driven journalism, four ways the Knight News Challenge is shaping the future. As the Knight News Challenge prepares to announce its fifth group of winners today, we looked back at the previous four years, in which 63 projects received nearly $22 million. The Knight Foundation has spread that money around, including academic research, software tools, urban hyperlocal reporting and basic information needs in developing countries. True/Slant Tests Web Journalism Model. Sunlight Foundation. User-Generated / Community Content (Transformation Tracker) TEDxPresidio - Robert Rosenthal - Investigative journalism in the 21st Century.