January 2012
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“I got the call many independent producers pray for late one Wednesday afternoon....”
– This American Life Tic Tock January 25th, 2012 | by Dan Grech
via Transom.org
December 2011
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WatchUsing Storify for reporting.
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“Mercer University will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for Phase II of the...”
– Macon Journalism Collaborative
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“The real difference between an intelligence agency and a newsroom (besides...”
– Matthew Schroyer, Data Journalist.
9.15.2011
November 2011
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“We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is...”
– This post isn’t about process. Last night I held a quick conversation about instant punditry culture, its profitablity, its shallow depth and its inevitable ennuied end.
And it happens so quickly. And checks are hard to come by.
This George Eliot quote and Ta-Nehisi Coates’...
“Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with...”
– Edward R. Tufte
I’ve been practicing ways to display data both interactively with widgets and open source apps utlizing the Google Docs spreadsheet.
Having not used spreadsheets in the past, it’s a painful process. I’m awful at this. I’m still trying.
Since I’ve...
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“You enter Guanajuato through rugged old tunnels, racing out of the subterranean...”
– 1st sentence, 4th paragraph, “LAND OF THE DEAD” for The Atlantic’s December 2011 issue by ANNE GISLESON
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“But as someone who spent the last three years in journalism education, our...”
– Journalism in the Open: Are Our Systems for Learning Making the Grade? by Dan Sinker
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“Now here’s what a news organization like ours thinks about rumors:
In one...”
– DAVID NEWHOUSE, The Patriot-News
Read the entire column here.
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“The confidence in a piece is directly related to the depth of the reporting...”
– Jim Collins, 2002.
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WatchYes.
Overview Project
Excerpt from the blog:
Overview is an ambitious project. The prototype workflow is based on automatically clustering documents by analyzing patterns of word usage, and our results so far are very promising. But that doesn’t immediately mean that this is the direction that development should take. There is a whole universe of document and data set problems facing...
October 2011
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“I think that we are generally not very good at making decisions. Mostly, things...”
– George Dyson | Evolution and Innovation - Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive | The European Magazine
This is a fun Q&A, a conversation about innovation and evolution with George Dyson, author of Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence and of the forthcoming...
Sundance Institute Announces First-Ever New... →
Cool
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“Augusta, Ga-based Morris Communications Co ., which operates Georgia newspapers...”
– Morris Communications takes on “digital-first” restructuring - Atlanta Business Chronicle
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“Modern Western civilization stands on the twin plinths of science and...”
– The End of the Future - Peter Thiel - National Review Online
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“Could Apple beat Netflix at its own game?”
– Apple Wants To Store Hollywood Movies On The Cloud And Stream Them To Customers
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Creating a multi-media workflow
I’m helping design a multi-media work-flow template for a news organization today.
Things to consider:
Work-flow. Reporters are churning out stories. They need to adopt something simple enough to not disrupt their current work-flow.
Style. Every news outlet will have it’s own concept of style and how they want to approach stories. Ideas are not enough. The idea needs to work...
“By selecting someone with virtually no newsroom experience but a long history of...”
– NPR prepares for a new reality - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com
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“The arguments found in images are related to textual arguments in that each is...”
– Image as argument | viz.
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Listener reaction to Radiolab after the 2004...
COMMENT #1:
What have you done? Bring back Fresh Air to WNYC FM
COMMENT #2:
Sorry. I find Radiolab incredibly annoying and over produced
COMMENT #3:
This is distractingly over produced
COMMENT #4:
Esoteric and obtuse!
COMMENT #5:
Soulless.
COMMENT #6:
What happened to WNYC today? Radiolab vs Fresh Air? Big. Programming. Mistake. Just turned of the radio, again.
COMMENT #7:
SOMEONE got a digital work station for Christmas
COMMENT #8:
Please bring back Fresh Air!
COMMENT #9:
Why a cutey, slick yet boring program in it's place?
COMMENT #10:
I'm NOT liking Radio Lab
COMMENT #11:
I just think Radiolab is about the most boring show I've ever listened to despite Jad's great name and voice.
COMMENT #12:
Irritating. I also find it alienating.
COMMENT #13:
Radiolab is an infantile show.
COMMENT #14:
Down with Radiolab!
Jad:
So. There were some positive comments as well but when I first read the Excel spreadsheet that contained all of those listener comments, umm, that will live in my gut churn hall of fame.
Forever.
I mean it literally knocked me on my ass. I, uh, I was--just did not expect that. It was hard to bounce back from but um--Oh! And I should say that up until a couple of years ago, maybe three years ago, EVERY TIME we would come on the air we'd get some version of that.
But I gotta hand it to (unintelligible--possibly Dean Cappello) "Yeah those people are hating on you. But it just means that you're doing your job. It means you're on the right track."
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The Guardian is opening up its newslists so you... →
via The Guardian:
Get in touch with reporters and editors via Twitter and have your say during our open newsdesk trial
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“A solid, satisfying ending has two parts. They can be called the climax and the...”
– Mindy McAdams
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Radiovision Festival: Explore Radio's Future →
The freeform broadcasters of Jersey City’s WFMU are producing the first-everRadiovision Festival in New York later this month, a weekend-long confab to highlight creativity in radio and technology’s potential to unleash it.
On Oct. 29, panelists from WFMU’s own talent roster will be joined by the likes of This American Life creator Ira Glass, media innovator Kenyatta Cheese,...
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“First, let’s try to get your attention. It IS the Internet stupid, but NOT in...”
– Jeff Gralnick, 5/10/2001
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“While they held sway over the intimate crowd, it was obvious that both MCs had...”
– For Pill and Freddie Gibbs, distance is strictly business, never personal | Cover story | Creative Loafing Atlanta
Maurice Garland in Creative Loafing. The brother is bad.
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“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do...”
– [NBC Nightly News, May 2006] via Business Insider
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Steve Jobs in Playboy magazine 2.1.85, via...
Playboy: "Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don’t have that kind of pride in the product?"
Jobs: “If they did, they wouldn’t have made the PCjr.”
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“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than...”
– Steve Jobs in Business Week, May, 5th, 1998.
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“Speech is alive—literally alive because speaking is the speaker. It’s not...”
– Huston Smith
“Center for Investigative Reporting”
– Reinventing Journalism: A personal journey | Investigative News Network
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“When my mother was 12, she walked from the projects of West Baltimore to the...”
– Ta-nahisi Coates, for The Atlantic, The Legacy of Malcolm X Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama
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“People will read this, Alicia, and they’ll believe us.”
– The Paper (1994)
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Open & Closed
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Opening and closing phrases for each paragraph in the article Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia (Part 1) By Colson Whitehead
POSTED JULY 27, 2011
Graphs:
I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside. My particular combo of slack features, negligible affect, and soulless gaze had helped my game ever since I started playing 20 years ago, when I was...
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“I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside. My particular combo of...”
– Colson Whitehead, “Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia,” Grantland
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