May 2013
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Objectivity and the decades-long shift from “just the facts” to “what does it mean?” - Nieman Lab
Investigative journalism may have pride of place within the mythology of American news, but that’s not really what journalists have been up to, by and large. Instead, newspaper journalists have been producing ever more of a kind a work that is so little discussed it doesn’t really have a name.
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“The average reader is pleased to observe anybody’s wooden leg being stolen.”
– Flannery O’Connor, with what continues to strike me as an incredibly succinct and useful piece of plot advice. (via mttbll) That entire essay (“Writing Short Stories,” collected in Mystery and Manners), is the most refreshing tonic. (via sarahwrotethat)
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“Teens don’t think of their Facebook use in terms of information sharing,...”
– From our new report, Teens, Social Media, and Privacy (link)
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“The best time to knock on the door of a four-star general who will not answer...”
– Bob Woodward, of the Washington Post, sharing advice on why people talk. Read more advice from Post reporters at Poynter. (via poynterinstitute)
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Pew Research Center: Have you ever un-friended... →
pewresearch:
We asked teen social media users about five specific activities that relate to the content they post and found that:
59% have deleted or edited something that they posted in the past.
53% have deleted comments from others on their profile or account.
45% have removed their name from photos that have been tagged to identify them.
Introducing the Pew Research Center's Fact Tank →
pewresearch:
Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers.
Fact Tank will build on the Pew Research Center’s unique brand of data journalism. For years, our teams of writers and social scientists have combined rigorous research with high-quality storytelling to provide important information on issues and trends shaping...
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“If you’re trying to raise a reader, you need your library. It’s too expensive...”
– Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading: Select quotes from parents and library staff (via pewinternet)
The Great Gatsby: The Video Game →
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kottke.org: Tender moments caught on Russian dash... →
jkottke:
Many Russian cars are outfitted with dashboard cameras to protect drivers against insurance fraud. These cameras have caught all sorts of crazy happenings — car accidents, low-flying jets, insurance scam attempts, meteors, and plane crashes
— leading many to believe that Russia is a place where crazy shit pretty much happens constantly.
But Russia’s dash cams have also captured many...
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Pew Research Center: Attention, journalists, media... →
pewresearch:
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism sends out a briefing email every morning, highlighting the biggest changes and news in the industry.
For example, in today’s news: Howard Kurtz and The Daily Beast part ways, Al Jazeera announces plans for a Detroit bureau, Facebook releases “best practices” guide for journalists and Michael Bloomberg may be interested...
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“To me, a library … is a necessity. They have lots of things to offer. It’s kind...”
– Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading: Select quotes from parents and library staff (via pewinternet)
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“Love is the reason why people want to stay healthy. It’s why they want to stay...”
– Susannah Fox, Healthcare Out Loud
April 2013
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“Data is an abstraction of something that happened in the real world. How people...”
– Nathan Yau
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“Psychologists distinguish between remembering something—which is to recall a...”
– from The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific American
(This entirely piece is fascinating.)
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Ten cool things about black holes
jkottke:
From Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy, a list of ten things you might not know about black holes. Some of this I knew, but this one is incredible:
If you were to rope off the solar system out past Neptune, enclose it in a giant sphere, and fill it with air, it would be a black hole!
See also this recent tweet from physicist Brian Greene:
Remove all the space within the atoms making up...
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Did your Facebook friends change their profile...
pewresearch:
In this video, Aaron Smith of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project discusses the effects of “online activism” in the wake of the Human Rights Campaign’s profile-picture campaign last week.
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“We get a much richer sense of the world when we ask people the why and the...”
– Kate Crawford, The Hidden Biases in Big Data
March 2013
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Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry... →
A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, commercial beekeepers say, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of the nation’s fruits and vegetables. […]
The Agriculture Department says a quarter of the American diet, from apples to cherries to watermelons to...
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How the data journalism sausage gets made →
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meltzer:
“Moving to New York ended up bringing me closer to home. Berkeley ceased to be the city where I lived, and became instead a set of values and memories—a nationality.
Suddenly I was Californian, something I’d never been before… How wonderful is it to explain away your peculiarities by attributing them to some faraway place!”
Cometbus #55
Replace “Berkeley/Californian”...
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