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The Million Reporters of Superstorm Sandy
Back when I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, before Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and even before blogs, I spent one semester studying the concept of news diffusion. It’s been 30 years,...
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Hack Jersey: Celebrating Creativity in Journalism
The decline of the American newspaper is generally seen as a tragedy of modern journalism. The villain in the story is the internet, that great disruptor — which, by the way, has disrupted the...
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It’s Time for Journalists to Learn Math
Watching someone like Matt Ericson of the New York Times show off the fabulous data visualizations that his department makes is a little like watching a master magician. What is there, after all, to...
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Why Gorging Ourselves on Junk News Matters
As is often the case, TV’s satirists — Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers — do a better job of getting to the truth of things that those of us actually practicing journalism. A few weeks ago,...
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A Giant Leap for New Jersey News
Yesterday, Montclair State University announced the launch of its Center for Cooperative Media, a remarkable leap of progress for strengthening and expanding the news here in New Jersey. The Center is...
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Pew: News Industry in Crisis
The state of the news business is lousy. A week after the much-revered Boston Phoenix threw in the towel that’s hardly surprising news, but a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for...
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The Immigration Project
Years ago, I created a radio documentary about my grandparents coming to America. For months, I sat at kitchen tables holding microphones in front of elderly relatives, and asked them to tell me their...
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Repainting Journalism
Last week, I attended a panel discussion about the Nieman Journalism Lab’s ambitious oral history, “Riptide,” at the Paley Center for Media in New York. “Riptide,” which chronicles legacy news media’s...
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Taking Stock of Anniversaries
For all the talk of journalism’s noble past and uncertain future, the truth is that journalism’s day-to-day is a lot like slinging hash. Everyday journalism is produced quickly, in massive quantities,...
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Sharing to Survive
I know how hard it is to share. I’m a first child. I am hard-wired to want to be the first in everything: the best, the brightest, the most loved. Not only that, but I was born and bred to be a...
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Journalism by Subpoena
The possibility that lane closures on the George Washington Bridge were political retribution surfaced as early as Sept. 13, when the Record’s John Cichowski first broke the story. Fort Lee Mayor Mark...
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Dodge Announces $2 million grant from the Knight Foundation The news coming out of New Jersey for the past month is not the kind of news we, as a state, want to be known for. Yet it does underscore for...
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Seeding the News Ecosystem
Ten years ago, I attended a gathering in South Orange that would change my life. NJ.com was holding a meetup to recruit bloggers. I was writing a story about the New Jersey blogosphere for the New York...
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Bringing Data Into the Sunshine
Imagine, says Waldo Jaquith, director of the U.S. Open Data Institute, that weather data was treated like much other government data. Say you had to file a Freedom of Information Request to get it, and...
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How to Rebuild the Business of Local News
Marc Andreesen, an Internet pioneer and venture capitalist, tweeted in early February that he’s bullish on the growth of the news business in the next 20 years. “Will grow 10x-100x,” he wrote....
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Q&A with Molly de Aguiar
This is the third installment of our new series featuring Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff here on the Dodge Blog. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they...
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Open Data NJ Summit: Running With the Nerds
Around 4:30 pm on May 15, as we were nearing the end of our Open Data NJ Summit at Montclair State, I was leading an animated “town hall” discussion about how to focus the considerable energy in the...
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Are Journalists the Unhappiest People on Earth?
In just the last few days, the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were found in the West Bank, a teenager from Livingston was gunned down in West Orange and another teenager leaving a...
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Journalism in the Service of Comedy
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Some of the best journalism in the United States is being done by comedians. Most recently it was Brit John Oliver who last week brought forth the wit and —...
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The Million Reporters of Superstorm Sandy
Back when I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, before Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and even before blogs, I spent one semester studying the concept of news diffusion. It’s been 30 years,...
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