ProPublica: How You Can Use Our ‘Opportunity Gap’ Project in Your Reporting
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 11:16
"Our news application makes it easy to point readers to profiles of specific schools or districts. Here’s our guide on how to use it, including instructions on how to share your findings from within the app and how to embed a special link to it …
New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:07
"The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. … some news organizations are setting up elaborate sy…
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
ProPublica: Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 17:14
Amanda Michel: "we began experimenting with mTurk last spring to clean, de-duplicate and reformat data. We’ve since used the tool to collect or proof more than 28,000 data points, from the names of companies that received stimulus money [6] to the categorization of answers to our home loan modification questionnaire [7]. We’re impressed with the speed and accuracy of its results. For example, a project we estimated would take a full-time staffer almost three days to finish was completed on mTurk overnight for $37, with 99 percent accuracy."
The Atlantic: The 5 Keys to Tumblr for Media Outlets
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 15:01
"for tech-savvy media outlets, it has not been exactly clear *what* to use Tumblr for. … So, leave it to ProPublica, an old-school investigative journalism non-profit to come up with the best use of Tumblr I've seen yet. It launched Officials Say the Darndest Things today, which presents funny or telling quotes by public figures."
Brian Boyer — Hacker Journalist : Draft: Kick-ass news apps, part deux! More projects to inspire journos.
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 21:20
"here’s my first whack at a list of recently inspiring projects"
PA: Online sites win journalism firsts at Pulitzers
Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 11:52
"ProPublica, in an historic first for online journalism, have won a coveted Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center following Hurricane Katrina."
MediaShift: ProPublica’s ChangeTracker Lets You Watch Government’s Moves | PBS
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 10:27
"ChangeTracker is a project at ProPublica that watches three government websites — Whitehouse.gov, Recovery.gov and Financialstability.gov — for edits, deletions or changes to existing content. Through an RSS feed, Twitter account or daily email digest, ChangeTracker will inform you when a page changes on these sites, and show you what's been added or removed."
ProPublica: Steal Our Code: How to Build Your Own Change-Tracking Feeds
Sunday, 22 February 2009, 09:50
"ChangeTracker is an experimental new tool that watches pages on whitehouse.gov. recovery.gov, and financialstability.gov so you don't have to. …. But ChangeTracker is not a piece of software. It's the output of a series of powerful and mostly free Web-based tools, lovingly connected over the Internet. Here's how to do it yourself so you can track changes on any Web site on the Internets."
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."
Saturday, 29 December 2007, 23:51
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WSJ managing ed Paul Steiger: "Next week I move over to a nonprofit called Pro Publica as president and editor-in-chief. When fully staffed, we will be a team of 24 journalists dedicated to reporting on abuses of power by anyone with power"
