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Nieman Journalism Lab: ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online

Sunday, 9 November 2008, 11:04

"Two of the biggest names in journalism have applied to this year’s Knight News Challenge: The pioneering investigative-reporting non-profit ProPublica and The New York Times are seeking $1 million from the Knight Foundation to launch an online repository of primary-source documents."

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 Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 13:36 Comments

"Two scholarship winners are now almost midway through their Medill studies. A third candidate will enroll next month. And we still have the equivalent of six full scholarships yet to award"

 Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 06:59 Comments

Ryan Mark, one of the first two journalist-programmers attending Medill: "My goal as a programmer was to get the computer to do my job and make money, even if I’m not around. As a journalist I’ll be trading words for dollars."