Linda Kinstler is a former writer for the Nieman Journalism Lab. She was a 2013 Google Journalism Fellow. Linda is currently a researcher and reporter for The New Republic.
“Improving technology has already made more and more information available to each of us, and will continue to do so. But more is not necessarily better.”
“For when the press is out of favor, people get to talking about doing something about it; at about that time, it seems to me, the press is well advised to start thinking in very serious ways of doing something of its own in the way of policing and examining and criticizing itself.”
“With improved methods of transmitting information, it may not be necessary to keep a man at police headquarters all day to write routine stories from the crumbs of information that come his way.”
Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.
Newspapers’ declining hold on audience attention began long before the web came along, the Scottish newspaper consultant argues, and tablets are one of the best hopes for reclaiming it.
By recruiting freelancers into an organized corps with a targeted mission, The Lens has improved oversight and accountability on charter school boards.
Kinstler, Linda. "The Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps is holding New Orleans schools accountable." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Jun. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2024.
APA
Kinstler, L. (2013, Jun. 25). The Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps is holding New Orleans schools accountable. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/06/the-lens-charter-school-reporting-corps-is-holding-new-orleans-schools-accountable/
Chicago
Kinstler, Linda. "The Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps is holding New Orleans schools accountable." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 25, 2013. Accessed December 12, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/06/the-lens-charter-school-reporting-corps-is-holding-new-orleans-schools-accountable/.
Wikipedia
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