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Fact Checking Words: Doing it Diligently
In the 24-hour 360-degree news cycle that is the Web, fact checking seems to be a lost art, but I encountered this interview with an editor at a small Virginia paper that suggests otherwise: From the...
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Fact Checking, Online Communities and Journalism
A few tidbits about fact checking that caught my eye recently: First, here’s a shocker! algorithms can do it. Tipped via the National Science Foundation’s Science 360 site Indiana University scientists...
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Platforms, platforms all around us…
Journalism (and much else for that matter) is mostly a question of platform now, you just may not have noticed it. By platform–a word, that like ‘risk’ means so many things it almost has withered to a...
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Data, Data Everywhere…
The news biz how it was…words. …but any room to think? Big data has come to the newspaper biz in a big way. London’s Guardian has a data leaderboard in their newsroom with real time metrics for how...
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Panama Papers in 30 Seconds
Via VOX, a funny and easy to digest explanation of the Panama Papers, originally from Reddit When you get a quarter you put it in the piggy bank. The piggy bank is on a shelf in your closet. Your mom...
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Nerd Words: Fallacies of Data Science
Good piece by Shane Brennan on Medium about the realities of data science in day-to-day working life (in contrast with how it’s taught). His ten fallacies: 1. The data exists. 2. The data is...
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Commonplace Book: Wacky Weddings
Trying–yet again–to get the blog re-energized. For now just going to use it as a commonplace book, and this Sunday’s NYTimes was full of great stuff. Perhaps none better than this wedding story, which...
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Word Watch: Hunker Down
The East Coast is getting clobbered by a “bomb cyclone” and weather stories (rather than actual weather) are a guilty pleasure of mine. Probably one of the few things I could have managed as a straight...
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Critical Words
Tom Rachman reviewing A World Without Whom : The essential guide to language in the BuzzFeed age by Emmy J. Favilla From “List of proof-marks, corrected proof-sheets and suggestions in regard to...
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Great Ledes
Fruits of a long habit of noting great ledes (or leads in this non-hot type era). Two recent ones that kept me reading, and the third from an Anthony Lane movie review from years ago. 1....
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