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Mary Ellen Bates on "Google Squared"

Mary Ellen Bates offers up this good tip on “Google Squared”at
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August 2009
Google Squared

Google Labs —the public playground where Google lets users try out new products or services that aren't yet ready for prime time —is my secret weapon for learning about cool new stuff. My favorite new discovery in Google Labs is Google Squared. It's a demonstration of a search engine trying to provide answers instead of just sites,and at a higher level than the simple “smart answers”you see when you search for “time in Rome”…[...]

The Internet,Data and Phil Meyer

Last week we had the opportunity to participate in a symposium honoring Phil Meyer,Knight Chair of Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel. About 30 journalism educators,practitioners and former students of Phil's spent the better part of two days kicking hard on the topic “”Raising the Ante:The Internet's Impact on Journalism Education [...]

So why can't this sourcing thing be fixed?

It can.

The NYT this morning tells us that “Big News Media Join in Push to Limit Use of Unidentified Sources.” Readers are told:

“Concerned that they may have become too free in granting anonymity to sources,news organizations including USA Today,The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times,NBC News and The New [...]

The NYT:Do as I say (sorta),not as I do

Today's NYT “Week in Review”carries Daniel Okrent's column,“The Public Editor.” This week's solid piece —“Briefers and Leakers and the Newspapers Who Enable Them”—takes another deserved shot at the use of unattributed and/or anonymous sourcing. But both Okrent and the NYT fall short in providing adequate transparency and leveraging of the [...]

Initial published description of the RRAW-P process

It was in the early '90s,when JTJ began thinking about and researching the process that results in the journalist's product. It eventually boiled down to the RRAW-P process:Research–>Reporting–>Analysis–>Writing and finally Publishing/Producing/Packaging. The attached paper first appeared in the Social Science Computer Review in 1994.

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Mary Ellen Bates on "Google Squared"

The Internet,Data and Phil Meyer

So why can't this sourcing thing be fixed?

The NYT:Do as I say (sorta),not as I do

Initial published description of the RRAW-P process

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