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Shan WangFebruary 27, 2017

Getting to the root of the “fake news” problem means fixing what’s broken about journalism itself

At MisinfoCon, stopping “fake news” wasn’t the only focus: Issues from news literacy to newsroom standards and reader empathy to ad revenue were all up for discussion.

Justin EllisJanuary 20, 2015

Hacking Journalism spent the weekend reimagining video — here’s what they came up with

A hackathon last weekend brainstormed new ideas for video — and tried to build early working versions of those ideas.

John WihbeySeptember 11, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: The realities of citizen journalism, and new possibilities for transparency

How “bridging elites” help on Twitter, perceptions of news by a skeptical public, and Wikipedia pages as newsmaking destinations: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Caroline O'DonovanDecember 12, 2013

Q&A: Sarah Marshall on leaving Journalism.co.uk for the WSJ and the state of media across the pond

“This visual storytelling — I just wanted to be part of it.”

Caroline O'DonovanOctober 1, 2013

Q&A: Guardian social and community editor Joanna Geary heads off to Twitter U.K.

“What we’re seeing is we just haven’t found the right social signals or social codes to make people feel that they have to behave a certain way in certain spaces online — and to tell the difference between a club and a church.”

Caroline O'DonovanJune 12, 2013

OpenData Latinoamérica: Ampliando la demanda de datos y recolectando transparencia

“Si dejas a cinco chilenos en una sala, probablemente van a terminar peleando. Así que no sólo estamos construyendo herramientas, también estamos construyendo formas de trabajar juntos, de construir confianzas.”

Caroline O'DonovanJune 11, 2013

OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards transparency

“If you put five Chileans in a room, they’re probably going to fight each other. So one of the things — we’re not just building tools, we’re also building ways of working together, and making people trust each other.”

Seth C. LewisFebruary 10, 2012

Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections on the new KNC 2.0

The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.

Jacob HarrisOctober 13, 2011

Word clouds considered harmful

The New York Times senior software architect would like the newest “mullets of the Internet” to go back from whence they came.

Transparency, iteration, standards: Knight-Mozilla’s learning lab offers journalism lessons of open source

What can the open source movement teach journalism — and vice versa? Nikki Usher and Seth C. Lewis

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