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Handicapping the Horserace
It’s human nature:Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the other candidate’s closet. Or,we can learn from serious journalism to tap into the growing number of digital tools at hand and see what is really going on …[...] Deep Web Research 2008 http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2008.htm By Marcus P. Zillman,Published on November 24,2007 Printer-Friendly Version Bots,Blogs and News Aggregators is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years,and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed over the [...] Another unique investigation by The New York Times gets A1 play in this Sunday's edition (1 Oct. 2006) under the hed “Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court's Rulings.” Adam Liptak and Janet Roberts (who probably did the heavy lifting on the data analysis) took a long-term look at who contributed to the campaigns of Ohio's [...] We're pulling together the final pieces following the Ver 1.0 workshop in Santa Fe last week. Twenty journalists,social scientists,computer scientists,educators,public administrators and GIS specialists met in Santa Fe April 9-12 to consider the question,“How can we verify data in public records databases?” The papers,PowerPoint slides and some initial [...] Friend-of-IAJ Griff Palmer alerts us to an impressive series this week that examines the conduct of the DA's office in Santa Clara County,California. If nothing else,the series illustrates why good,vital-to-the-community journalism takes time and is expensive. Rick Tulsky,Griff and other colleagues spent three years —not not three days,but YEARS —on the story. Griff writes: “I invite you all to take a look at “Tainted Trials,Stolen Justice.”This five-day series was three years in the making. It starts in today's Mercury News: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld Free registration is required to view the …[...] We don't know if there has as yet been any empirical research done on how interested media consumers are in online crime mapping —and how good the coverage is – but there is a body of literature debating readers'interest in crime per se. It would seem to be a pretty good bet,though,[...] A piece on calling the elections in Detroit: MAKING A FORECAST:A secret formula helps producer call the election rightBY CHRIS CHRISTOFF November 10,2005 What was a viewer to believe? As polls closed Tuesday,WDIV-TV (Channel 4) declared Freman Hendrix winner of Detroit's mayoral race by 10 percentage points. WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) showed Hendrix ahead by 4 percentage points,statistically too close to call. But WJBK-TV (Channel 2) got it right,declaring just after 9 p.m. that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was ahead,52% to 48%,which turned out to be almost exactly the …[...] For those interested in the forensic process —and in this case,computer forensics —be sure to check out this fine,fine piece of digital detective work by Mark Russinovich,a computer security expert with Sysinternals. He discovered evidence of a “rootkit”on his Windows PC. We don't think journalists need to know [...] Another example of how journalists can learn from other disciplines comes to the surface in the form of an LA Press Club meeting Nov. 9. “Digging deep:What reporters can learn from and about private investigators,”is the topic,and the panel of speakers,though large,seems rich with potential. Here at the IAJ we [...] We're pleased that the PBS program “Frontline”is keeping up the good fight to produce important journalism. And thanks to the Librarian's Index to the Internet for pointing us to:Private Warriors This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program looks “at private contractors servicing U.S. military supply lines,running U.S. military bases,and protecting [...] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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