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Nieman Journalism Lab
Nieman Journalism Lab |
- Verification Junkie is a new compendium of online tools for fact-checking
- Arguing for a new genre: “JavaScript journalism”
- How to turn everyone in your newsroom into a graphics editor
| Verification Junkie is a new compendium of online tools for fact-checking Posted: 30 Jul 2013 10:34 AM PDT When there’s a lot of innovation going on around a particular issue, it can be hard to keep track of who has already tried what, when, and how it went. One major trend unfolding right now is experimentation around fact-checking; there are dozens of startups, open source projects, and collaborations looking at how we can cheaply, quickly, and accurately figure out if something published on the web is true or not. Josh Stearns, a self-professed “verification junky,” works for Free Press, an organization that supports journalism in the public interest. Today, he launched an online “directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content.”
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| Arguing for a new genre: “JavaScript journalism” Posted: 30 Jul 2013 07:55 AM PDT Ray Daly of The Washington Post has been writing JavaScript since the 1990s. In May, he spoke at JSConf about “JavaScript journalism” — the idea that just as it took some time for photojournalism to be respected as a distinct field, it’s now proper to define JavaScript journalism as its own thing, a field ready to stand alongside the other prefixes journalists attach to their job titles. (He stands up for JavaScript in particular — arguing that The New York Times’ Pulitzer for Snow Fall should have credited “its deft integration of JavaScript” rather than “its deft integration of multimedia elements.”) Video of his talk was just posted to YouTube. His slides are here (using Hakim El Hattab’s lovely Reveal.js to format the presentation).  |
| How to turn everyone in your newsroom into a graphics editor Posted: 30 Jul 2013 07:38 AM PDT Editor’s note: Back in May, I noted this Quora discussion on how Quartz creates visualizations — charts, mostly — of data so quickly off the news cycle. The answer involved an in-house tool that made it relatively simple to turn a data set into a chart that fit Quartz’ visual aesthetic. I was very happy, when tweeting with that tool’s creator, David Yanofsky, to learn that Quartz planned on open-sourcing the tool. It’s built on the amazing D3.js — built by The New York Times’ Mike Bostock — which is immensely powerful but also features a learning curve that’s proven a bit too steep for me. Today, that tool, Chartbuilder, is available for your use. (Here’s a chart of Apple’s stock price since May 3 that I made in about three minutes.) Today Quartz is open-sourcing the code behind Chartbuilder, the application we use to make most of our charts. Along with the underlying charting library — called Gneisschart — the tool has given everyone in our worldwide newsroom 24-hour access to simple charts at graphics-desk quality. It has helped all of our reporters and editors become more responsible for their own content and less dependent on others with specialized graphics skills. The rise of ChartbuilderThe project started as a tool for myself. Dismayed by some of the ugly, poorly cropped, off-brand, and illegible charts showing up on Quartz and frustrated by the amount of my own time it was taking to produce even the simplest charts in our style, I set out to make a tool that would allow me to support the charting needs of the newsroom without consuming all of my time. It quickly turned into an application for the entire newsroom. Here are some charts that were made by our reporters with the tool: Chartbuilder is a completely front-end application: no specialized servers required. Gneisschart, the part of the software that actually draws the charts (instead of controlling them), utilizes the all-but-industry-standard visualization library D3.js. Creating a method for charting in the newsroom is not a new problem. Paul Krugman lamented his own chart workflow in 2009. And we’ve all worked in newsrooms where the graphics desk is overloaded with small requests. Quartz does not have a graphics desk. We have the Things team. As an establishing principle, this team of multidisciplinary and multiplatform journalists is no more a service to our newsroom than our well-sourced reporters. The Things team is just as responsible for reporting news and originating content as everyone else. Making other people’s charts slows us down. But given the right tool, helping out a colleague is a trivial exercise. Chartbuilder has allowed us to scale the Things Team’s capacity exponentially, allowing our site to benefit immeasurably. Visually, now, all of our content shines, not just the bits that fit neatly into our CMS. Chartbuilder helped our digital newsroom reclaim some of the design consistency that remains a staple of print publications. Of course, getting our staff onboard and using Chartbuilder was not an overnight process. But with the aid of our most chart-reliant reporters, we quickly got everyone trained and using Chartbuilder with a 30-minute demonstration followed by one-on-one troubleshooting as problems arose. The principles of ChartbuilderChart builder was created to lower the barrier for non-technical and less-designerly journalists to create charts. With that in mind, the tool is built around these organizing principles: Immediate visual feedback for every user interactionImmediate visual feedback is one of the biggest reasons Chartbuilder has been successful internally. A reporter who isn’t quite sure they’re doing it right can feel around with the tool, and know whether she made the right change — not after clicking an update button, not after a momentary delay. They’ll see it as soon as they lift up the key they pressed. Speed winsNews moves fast. If a tool is slow, reporters wont use it. This principle is only slightly about the speed at which the actual code runs and primarily about the time it takes a user to show up at the tool, make a chart, and leave. With proper data, this should take less than 30 seconds. Styling must be flexible enough for any setup, but opinionated enough to keep style consistentCharts made with Chartbuilder, because they’re built through D3.js and styled with CSS, are easy to customize. At Quartz, we’ve loaded in our extended color palette, set the default order in which those colors should be used (bright pink first!), loaded in our fonts, and made the type and stroke weights large enough so that they’re still reasonably legible when viewed on mobile devices. Output formats just work, and are easy to useA reporter’s understanding of an image file is exponentially higher than a reporter’s understanding of an iframe embed code snippet. Content management systems’ understanding of an image file is exponentially higher than a CMS’s understanding of an iframe embed. No connection, no problemWith reporters around the world and many often on the road, the ability to use Chartbuilder without an internet connection can be quite useful. If you download the source code from GitHub, you can use the tool offline. Enhancements will be made to take advantage of newer HTML technologies and preempt the requirement to download. Chartbuilder in your newsroomReportersThe day-to-day use of Chartbuilder can enhance your stories where previous limitations prevented it. No longer do you need to wait for a production team to create your content. Your charts will look professional and will blend into the aesthetic of the rest of your site. Of course, you’ll need to set up the styles of Chartbuilder to match your publication’s, so you might need some help. Graphics deskChartbuilder will make you sane again. You can stop copying and pasting charts into Illustrator from Excel and taking five minutes to resize and restyle it. After dumping the data into Chartbuilder, you can export as an SVG, open that in Illustrator, and edit away. If you’re not up on CSS, ask your web-comfortable friends to help you get the style to match your publication’s guide. Dev teamNot only will Chartbuilder get the web editors off your back about building a charting tool into the CMS, but it also requires very little work to set up. You don’t need to stand up a back-end that renders chart images or stores arbitrary amounts and formats of data. Download the source, get a designer to update the styles, and host it on some internal web server. Chartbuilder and Gneisschart are now available on Github. We look forward to charting the way forward with you.  |
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Nieman Journalism Lab
Nieman Journalism Lab |
- Eyes on Haverhill: Painting a total portrait of local media
- NBC News teams with GlobalPost to boost int’l coverage
- What’s the path forward for nonprofit news in Philadelphia?
- AP and Meltwater settle litigation, make nice
- What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Tracking SOPA, when filter bubbles aren’t bubbles, and the uses of incivility
| Eyes on Haverhill: Painting a total portrait of local media Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:05 PM PDT A few years ago, Tom Stites, formerly of The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and beyond, wrote a series of pieces about his plan to help save local journalism via news cooperatives. Later this year, he plans to launch the first of these experiments in Haverhill, Mass. In the lead up, Dan Kennedy has been blogging about the media landscape in Haverhill. His first post is a historical overview of newspapers in the area; today he writes about “reviving old-time radio.”
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| NBC News teams with GlobalPost to boost int’l coverage Posted: 29 Jul 2013 10:04 AM PDT The peacock network’s news division is partnering with GlobalPost to increase its foreign reporting. From the news release:
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| What’s the path forward for nonprofit news in Philadelphia? Posted: 29 Jul 2013 09:49 AM PDT Christopher Wink of Technical.ly (Philly et al.) has a useful, smart post on recent changes at AxisPhilly, the foundation-supported effort to create a nonprofit newsroom for Philadelphia, which included the exit of CEO Neil Budde. Wink’s takeaway: Things were moving too slowly; the business side was underdeveloped; editorial lacked focus. Wink’s asking the right questions, and the ideas in his post, while Philadelphia-specific, would be a useful outline of the sort of questions anyone starting a nonprofit news organization should be asking.  |
| AP and Meltwater settle litigation, make nice Posted: 29 Jul 2013 08:09 AM PDT That’s according to an AP press release:
Quite a change in tone from the original lawsuit, in which AP accused Meltwater of both copyright infringement and the more controversial “hot news misappropriation,” which some have worried goes to far in giving news producers control over how their news gets aggregated. (Some think the opposite, of course.) This settlement means that this case won’t be adding to hot-news case law one way or the other. Quite a few major news orgs (NYT Co., Gannett, McClatchy, and more) signed on to an amicus brief supporting AP in February.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:43 AM PDT Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s who. JR is a project of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and they spend their time examining the new academic literature in media, social science, and other fields, summarizing the high points and giving you a point of entry. Roughly once a month, JR managing editor John Wihbey will sum up for us what’s new and fresh. This summer edition of What’s New In Digital Scholarship has a few insights on some sizzling (and very wonky) questions: Are paywalls worth it? What’s the cosmic meaning of the SOPA-PIPA debate? What do we learn by visualizing millions of Instagram users? How filter-y are search engine filter bubbles, really? And did the early reporting on the Arab Spring miss the boat on social media? That and more among these half-dozen selected studies: “Newspaper paywalls — the hype and the reality: A study of how paid news content impacts on media corporation revenues”: Study from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, published in Digital Journalism. By Merja Myllylahti. The researcher looks at the available data on outlets around the globe, including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times (U.K.), The Australian, and various outlets in New Zealand, Finland, and central Europe. The study is constrained, perhaps even hampered, by the fact that media outlets do not necessarily disclose full information about their online operations and revenue flows. In any case, the researcher adds to the heated debate over paywalls by drawing the following conclusions: “It can be argued that online news paywalls create additional income for news corporations, but at the current revenue levels they do not offer a viable business model in the short term. Some newspapers have started to lower prices for their online news content and to offer discounted packages in order to enhance their subscription numbers, but in the short term this is most likely to erode their digital revenues.” Over this relatively small sample, the study estimates, online subscriptions account for about 10 percent of publishing/circulation revenue. But even this figure is threatened by “softening” paywalls and decreasing subscription prices. Although the findings of the paper are only “provisional,” the researcher notes, the broader potential downsides of paywalls are given heavy emphasis. “Interactions of News Frames and Incivility in the Political Blogosphere: Examining Perceptual Outcomes”: Study from Washington State University, published in the Political Communication. By Porismita Borah. The research literature on media credibility and how incivility, online outrage and media polarization affect the public is all still evolving. How does the tone, presentation, style, words, associated images, and other attributes of stories — what scholars call “framing” — affect perceptions of truth? In a digital world of sharp-elbowed trolls, what are the signifiers of credibility for the average consumer? One would hope that calm, reasoned, civil discourse around news issues would engender the greatest degree of credibility. But this may not be so. This study analyzes web survey results from about 240 college students who were asked to respond to stories around gay rights issues; in some instances, they first read a civil or uncivil blogger commentary. The researcher juggled a couple of different other variables. Some stories had a “strategy” frame — they focused on the performance and style of people involved — while others had a “value” frame, whereby the story focused on the clash of basic worldviews and beliefs. Ultimately, the study concludes that “uncivil blogger commentary increased the credibility of the news article” in cases where the content of the news story highlighted a clash of fundamental values. Although uncivil commentary can decrease trust in government and a reader’s sense of their power within politics, the researcher finds, it nevertheless increases credibility for news framed a certain way. Incivility, it seems, has its uses, even if they don’t necessarily serve the interests of informed, deliberative democracy. “Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate”: Study from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. By Yochai Benkler, Hal Roberts, Rob Faris, Alicia Solow-Niederman, and Bruce Etling. Did the SOPA-PIPA controversy illustrate a new world at work? Or was it a unique case? This study uses new digital mapping tools from the Media Cloud project (jointly run with MIT’s Center for Civic Media) to examine news coverage of the debate surrounding the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and companion bill PIPA, from 2010 to 2012. The research findings validate Internet scholar and philosopher Yochai Benkler’s well-known views on the networked public sphere and “networked fourth estate.” A tiny coterie of “small-scale commercial tech media, standing non-media NGOs, and individuals” managed to spotlight the issue, wake the mainstream media from their dogmatic slumbers and ultimately raise enough hell to thwart the bill. A close look at the information flows over time shows certain subtleties that highlight how smaller actors played outsized roles at certain points: “A major node like Wikipedia may be secondary, while an otherwise minor node, such as the blog of a law professor commenting on an amendment or a technical paper on DNS security, may be more important. The dynamic nature of attention in controversies over time means that prior claims regarding a re-concentration of the ability to shape discourse miss vital fluctuations in influence and visibility…Fluctuations in attention given progressive development of arguments and frames over time allow for greater diversity of opportunity to participate in setting and changing the agenda early in the debate compared to the prevailing understanding of the power law structure of attention in digital media.” In the ongoing debate over the relative power of Internet activism, SOPA-PIPA furnishes an “optimistic” story. Overall, the data lend “support to the feasibility of effective online mobilization providing sufficiently targeted action to achieve real political results.” However, the researchers concede that SOPA-PIPA activism could be a kind of one-off, not to be repeated on issues relating to other public policy realms. “Perhaps the high engagement of young, net-savvy individuals,” they write, “is only available for the politics of technology…” “Zooming into an Instagram City: Reading the local through social media”: Study from CUNY and the University of Pittsburgh, published in First Monday. By Nadav Hochman and Lev Manovich. The researchers produce fantastic, path-breaking visualizations of the way Instagram users are engaging with the photo-sharing application; they examine a sample of more than 2 million photos across 13 cities, slicing it in various ways. They take a textured, subtle approach — one more “humanities”-driven than some more “scientific” Big Data empirical examinations of patterns — to derive meaning from the data. They call it “multi-scale reading”: Looking at data at different levels, from different angles. It’s the technique of examining photo metadata and content in creative ways that can help tell more interesting stories about the people who engage in social photo-sharing: “This ability to visualize photographic content at multiple scales allows us to start asking questions such as: How can we compare millions of photos taken in London, Bangkok, and Tel Aviv in such a way that cultural differences between these cities can be revealed?” Prose fails to do justice to their results. No earlybird-Nashville-sepia-valencia-retro-vintage-distressed-really-cool-yellow-light-1977 photo filters are necessary here. And the super-cool visualizations in the study — on display in greater detail at Phototrails.net — are all the more interesting for it. “Connecting in Crisis: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Media and the Arab Spring”: From Stockholm University, published in The International Journal of Press/Politics. By Alexa Robertson. This study compares the approaches of Al Jazeera English, Russia Today, CNN International, and BBC World News in their coverage of the Arab Spring events. The researcher reviewed a representative sample of 71 hours of airtime in January 2011; she is particularly interested in how social media are represented and connections between people “on the ground” and media members filtering and reporting from afar. The study critiques the broadcast outlets in many ways for failing to capitalize on the available user-generated material and the new, networked media dynamics at play: “In the first tumultuous weeks of the ‘Facebook Revolution,’ less use was made of crowdsourced material and less attention was paid to the role of social media in global television news than is often suggested. On average, news items drawing on user-generated content amounted to less than 4 percent of all items and social media were part of less than 2 percent of all news stories.” However, Al Jazeera English “outclassed the others in terms of the absolute number of reports it aired that drew on user-generated content or focused on the role of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or the Internet in general in these events.” It presents a case study of mainstream media gatekeeping and filtering, and the various growing pains global news outlets are facing in a world of mobile device-wielding protestors who each represent their own broadcast outlet. “Searching the Web for conflicting topics: Page and user factors”: Study from University of Valencia and University of Seville (Spain) and Knowledge Media Research Center (Germany), published in Computers in Human Behavior. By Ladislao Salmerón, Yvonne Kammerer, and Pilar García-Carrión. Adding to the vast literature now accumulating on the topic of information-seeking on the web — particularly relating to youth and the habits of the “Google generation” — this study analyzes how young people try to resolve conflicting information and how search results presentation affects how they operate and what they conclude. Of course, the top results heavily influence where people click and ultimately what they deem relevant and credible — a phenomenon scholars call the “top link” heuristic. In this way, search algorithms are like rail tracks — or to mix the metaphor with a more famous one, a “filter bubble” — guiding pathways to knowledge and allowing for cognitive shortcuts. But that is not the end of the story, it turns out. The researchers asked 67 undergraduate students to review search engine results pages that had been manipulated to run in different orders and to bookmark pages for later evaluation; they were asked about greenhouse gas emission and climate change — a topic obviously requiring them to reconcile conflicting information. The findings “reveal that the participants employed a ‘top link’ heuristic while searching Web pages for a conflicting socio-scientific topic, but that they engaged in more systematic processing to assess the topic relevance and trustworthiness of Web pages when deciding which information to bookmark for later study.” This suggests that navigation patterns and actual use of knowledge are not the same thing — and they shouldn’t be confused in our understanding of search. “Conclusions based only on navigation data could result in misleading views,” the researchers state. The study also discusses how students’ prior knowledge influences their behavior and suggests some educational applications of the findings for instructors teaching online research. Photo by Anna Creech used under a Creative Commons license.  |
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