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Democrat & Chronicle's RocDocs
RocDocs is a fantastic section on DemocratandChronicle.com where users can go to search records ranging from how qualified teachers are in their district to how much they're paying police officers for overtime. The newspaper is also inviting users to help be watchdogs.
Nov 26, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says
Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.
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Nov 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Photoshopping the Red Sox
Rabid fan base + access to Photoshop = hours of entertainment. That's what the Boston Globe figured, at least, with this gallery of photoshopped Red Sox images. The offerings range from inspired to downright weird, and they've got 135 up (and counting?). Check out the Napoleon Dynamite tribute.
Oct 30, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
News-Press voted APME's first Innovator of the Year
The News-Press has been named APME's first Innovator of the Year "for its culture of innovation and a series of trend-setting initiatives that include mobile journalists, or mojos, crowdsourcing and a team of watchdog citizens."
Oct 25, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
WNYC's 'Are You Being Gouged?' crowdsourcing results
Here are the results of WNYC's group journalism/crowdsourcing project, “Are You Being Gouged?” WNYC asked listeners to check the prices of three common items in their local store and report it on their website. They'll be announcing the results on air later this week.
They got over 350 contributions and they’ve plotted all the prices on a map at their website. When the show page goes fully live, you’ll be able to click on the icons for any of the items and see the price, the name of the store, the address, and the listener’s comment.
Here are some of the findings based on what the listeners reported:
Most expensive milk: Crown Heights, Brooklyn (2.99 for a quart)
Least expensive place for milk: Gravesend, Brooklyn (99 cents for a quart)
Most expensive place to get beer (6 pack of Budweiser): Greenport, NY (14.99)
Least expensive place for beer: Redhook Fairway (4.49)
Most expensive place to get lettuce (iceberg): Tribeca (3.49)
Very nicely done.
Least expensive for lettuce: Wayne, NJ (0.79)
Oct 7, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
QuePasa.com Spearheads Citizen Journalism for Latinos
We're increasing seeing more citizen journalism ventures around the world and in different languages.
Here's an interesting announcement about what claims to be the first Latino citizen journalism website on the World Wide Web, QuePasa News Network.
If you know of any, send them to editor@cyberjournalist.net or add them (or any other Citizen Media site you know of) to the CyberJournalist.net Citizen Media Sites Wiki at http://wiki.cyberjournalist.net/citmedia
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Sep 26, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
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