How journalists can use Mechanical Turk to organize data, transcribe notes
Some of what journalists do is tedious, repetitive, time-consuming and expensive to outsource. Transcribing interviews,…
January 5, 2011
Megan Taylor
How to Use TimeFlow to Manage, Analyze Chronological Data
As a reporter at The Washington Post, Sarah Cohen was frequently frustrated with the dearth…
August 26, 2010
How Poligraft Can Help Journalists and Consumers Discover Connections in the News
Poligraft is a new tool released by the Sunlight Foundation that tries to add political…
August 18, 2010
How Journalists Can Incorporate Computational Thinking into Their Work
Over the last few years, the journalism community has discussed mindset, skillset, journalist-programmers, and other…
July 23, 2010
How to Deal with Web Browser ‘Fingerprints’
A few years ago, The New York Times exposed how "anonymous" search data isn't anonymous…
June 3, 2010
Jay Rosen’s Explainthis.org Would Have Journalists Answer Users’ Questions
If you listen to Rebooting the News, a podcast done by Jay Rosen, a journalism…
January 7, 2010
Washington Post‘s ‘Post Alert’ Offers Breaking News, Special Projects Updates to Users
The Washington Post has released a site-wide notification system that delivers notices on breaking news…
September 30, 2009
‘Apps For America’ Shows Innovative Ways to Display Government Data
The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to greater government openness and transparency via the Internet,…
September 18, 2009
How AP’s News Registry Will (and Won’t) Work
The Associated Press's announcement of a news registry to "track and tag all AP content"…
August 3, 2009