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Ingrid Sturgis's List: computational journalism
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Jun 10, 11
"Let’s begin with the obvious. Journalism had become a computing dependent profession long before the online revolution upended the business models that sustained the industry since the 1830s. Investigative journalists, particularly, have been using government databases for decades. They have been creating databases since the early 1990s, and it’s no accident that many of the Pulitzer-prize winning stories over the last 15 years rely heavily on database reporting.
There’s no longer an argument about whether journalists need to be digitally literate. Today, newsgathering requires the ability to write programs that scrape public records databases and design interfaces that make the information in those databases interesting, relevant and accessible. It requires the programming and design skills to create interactive presentations that model complex public policy issues or explain social processes. It requires the mastery of social media technologies used to organize online communities around shared interests, issues and concerns. It requires the ethical grounding needed to ensure that the content generated by these advanced tools is accurate, fair, comprehensive and proportional.
However, the digital transformation of newsgathering and delivery requires that journalists become creators, not just consumers of computing technologies. I’m not saying that journalists need to become programmers. I’m saying that we need to be able to reason abstractly about what we do, understand the full pallette of computational tools at our disposal, and collaborate to deploy those tools with maximum efficiency and effectiveness. That means understanding the underlying structures and processes of media creation." -
Sep 12, 11
Reader Elite, a small group whose influence and effect on the future of content will be far more significant and long-lasting on media and democracy. Because while the Web itself democratizes information by providing the ability to easily access, publish and share information,
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