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« Previous EntriesBlog brings human face to big-city murder - CNN.com
Monday, April 21st, 2008Blog brings human face to big-city murder - CNN.com
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
Monday, April 7th, 2008In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
Pew Research Center: The News You Choose
Friday, April 4th, 2008Pew Research Center: The News You Choose
The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Images in NEWS
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008NPPA Calls Newsweek’s Martha Stewart Cover “A Major Ethical Breach”
L.A. Times Photographer Fired Over Altered Image
PhotoEthics (sree.net)
Greg’s Digital Retouching Portfolio
Shooting Up On A-1
NYC24: When Photos Lie
Photo Tampering Throughout History by Hani Farid
Okkam - Semantic Web Resource
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008I saw this article about a resource the EU is building to help with entity detection / resolution called Okkam. This could be useful for anyone trying to do text processing as a component of their final project.
Automated Detection of Image Manipulation
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008This blog post, entitled “Protecting Journalistic Integrity Algorithmically,” talks about a program that analyzes images in an attempt to locate cloning and other artifacts produced by image manipulation. http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/02/protecting_journalistic_integrity_algorithmically.html
George Polk Award for Talking Points Memo Founder
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The founder of Talking Points Memo was awarded the first George Polk Award given to a web-only publication. (The Polk is a major award for journalism, and a major honor for the journalist receiving it.) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/media/25marshall.html?pagewanted=all
Reuters’ Open Calais
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Reuters release an new API called Calais based on a semantic entity extraction engine they acquired from Clear Forest last year. It can extract Entities, Organizations, Companies, Events, and relationships between these things. Read Write Web posted a good summary of the API’s capabilities here.
Thinking about how to integrate the capabilities of this API into […]