Google Refine: A tool for journalists looking for great stories in data
Hopefully it encourages more journalists to take the plunge into computer-assisted reporting.
Columbia Journalism Review
Beware the evil media Hamster Wheel
The Hamster Wheel is investigations you will never see, good work left undone, public service not performed.
‘A need to investigate the bastards’
Columbia Journalism review posted an interesting feature story about nonprofit investigative news organizations, and how they take different approaches to funding and sharing their content. The CJR story opens with a telling anecdote about a meeting at California Watch. At the meeting, the editors agree that one of their reporters, after months of digging, has …