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Articles tagged public data (12)

Joseph LichtermanOctober 20, 2014

Light everywhere: The California Civic Data Coalition wants to make public datasets easier to crunch

Journalists from rival outlets are pursuing the dream of “pluggable data,” partnering to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign finance and lobbying data.

Mark CoddingtonOctober 11, 2013

This Week in Review: Twitter’s TV ramp-up, and a clash over press regulation in the UK

Plus: The fallout of government surveillance, mugshot extortion, a Philly newspaper flap, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.

Rafat Ali’s Skift plans expansion

Justin EllisMarch 7, 2013

Dallas Morning News partners with local government group to gather clean, universal crime data

A grant from Knight’s Prototype Fund will pay for a council of North Texas governments to render crime data from dozens of sources into a format journalists and the public can use.

Mark CoddingtonJanuary 7, 2013

This Week in Review: Andrew Sullivan’s bold paid-content plan, and Al Jazeera’s play for the U.S.

Plus: The fallout from one newspaper’s publication of gun-permit data, the NYT’s Snow Fall and multimedia journalism, and the rest of the week’s media news.

Justin EllisOctober 25, 2011

Bringing a crowd to a records fight: The Columbia Missourian uses Spot.us to raise money for data request

For one community newspaper (and journalism school teaching lab), outside donations quickly helped pay for access to public data.

June 24, 2011

News Challenge winner OpenBlock Rural plans to partner with smaller papers on using public data

June 8, 2011

House Hunters, data edition: Meet Curbwise, the Omaha World-Herald’s real-estate news app

February 17, 2011

How public is public data? With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access standards could emerge

August 5, 2010

How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools

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