Knight’s Data-Centric News Challenge Winners

By Joshua Ben­ton, Nie­man Jour­nal­ism Lab Sept. 20, 2012 Today at the Online News Association’s annual con­fer­ence in San Fran­cisco, the Knight Foun­da­tion will present its newest class of Knight News Chal­lenge win­ners. This cycle — the sec­ond of three this year under Knight’s new harder-better-faster-stronger con­test régime — was focused on data, and the six win­ners are unusu­ally tool-heavy — […]

Gloating and the War in the World of Local

Schaden­freude, Part Two: I Apol­o­gize By Deb­bie Galant, Baris­tanet Posted Sep­tem­ber 8, 2011 on Authen­ti­cally Local Schaden­freude, or gloat­ing over another’s mis­for­tune, is not a pretty thing. By def­i­n­i­tion. And though I’m used to being scolded by read­ers, my upbraid­ing by some of the Patch rank-and-file over my last post here has left me unex­pect­edly chas­tened. I meant […]

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