Posted on October 25, 2008 by under-covered
The Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation Project takes election polls and database journalism to a unique level. Using 11 different populations they believe to be important in the 2008 election, the CS Monitor has created a personalized version of what they see as the groups that could be seen as voting blocs — not the [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by under-covered
Matt Carroll of the Boston Globe was so kind as to explain to us on Monday that there is really nothing to database journalism — a growing branch of computer assisted reporting — and that we could seal our worth in the newsroom with some knowledge of how to ruffle through columns and rows. It’s [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by under-covered
Four watch-dog sources often used by researchers and the media are designed as spring boards to enable more informed reporting, and in the end, voting.
FactCheck.org, created and maintained by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, simply posts it findings and publications. Quite deadpan and mostly one-way information, the site does allow [...]
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