Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:35
"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."
Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:35
"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Opening up journalism’s boundaries to bring change back in: How Knight and its News Challenge have evolved
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:06
"[The Knight Foundation] has sought to innovate journalism in part by stepping away from it, by making a strategic shift from 'journalism' to 'information.' This broadening of boundaries has created crucial space for innovators — from inside and outside journalism — to set forth a reformed view of what journalism is and ought to be. … If the 'problem' for journalism in an era of digital disruption was the need to find new or refurbished models through which journalism’s core functions and societal benefits could be achieved — to 'meet the information needs of communities,' in the foundation’s common refrain — then Knight was making a break from its past in turning away from faith in industry expertise and toward an acknowledgement that the solutions may well come from the aggregate expertise of a participatory crowd of contributors."
News Credit: Making news more transparent
Friday, 2 January 2009, 14:04
"News credit uses microformats with some specific enhancements to allow journalists, and those producing journalism, to embed basic information to their news articles online which can help the public establish an article’s authorship and provenance. This information is not pejorative or judgmental, rather the basic who, what, when and where of a news article. The equivalent, if you like, of ingredients of the side of a food packet – giving people the information they need to enable them to make informed choices."
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."
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 13:36
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"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
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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."
