Power to the Tweeple
February 28, 2011 at 5:57 PM EST
PBS Tweeple offers unfiltered access to the spontaneous thoughts of your favorite on-air anchors, correspondents, commentators... and a certain public media CEO. Read more...
Updates from the Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference
February 22, 2011 at 11:11 AM EST
Data Producer Michelle Minkoff is heading to Raleigh, N.C. this week along with hundreds of other data journalists across the world. February 24-27 marks the annual Computer-Assisted Reporting conference. She'll be learning from others, and sharing what she's picked up about data journalism. Come along for the ride by checking in on her tweets from the conference on this page. Read more...
How Should We Reinvent Data Projects?
February 18, 2011 at 12:14 AM EST
Our industry of “news application development” is still in its infancy. What's the climate for data projects like at PBSNews.org, and how can that help us change how we do these projects? Get a glimpse at how our group is structured, and just what it is we're doing every day, and give us some advice on what we should be thinking about. Read more...
What Makes a Great Debate?
February 14, 2011 at 10:56 PM EST
There's no shortage of "debates" in the media. Basically, throw a few chatty people in a real or virtual room, add one hot-topic question, a generous helping of audience, stir vigorously, and voila! you have a debate. We like to think that's where "Issue Clash" will fill the void, or at least add something new for smart, hungry, issue-addicts to chew on. Read more...
DataStories: How We Can Join Forces For Better Journalism
February 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM EST
Information is flying at us from all directions -- how do we help our users sort through it? One of the advantages of crafting new types of storytelling for PBS is that the story doesn’t start and end on our website – we can work to bring innovative storytelling forms to national shows and local stations across our network. Just how are we considering doing that? Enter the DataStory. Read more...
Sharing our Work: Does it Make "Census"?
February 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM EST
How much more information could we distribute if news organizations reduced their work load by collaborating and sharing work on basic journalistic analysis? Read more...
When Does Crowdsourcing Trump Expertise?
January 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM EST
Does journalistic genius Nicholas Kristof, who won two Pulitzer Prizes, really need the public’s help in deciding what to “focus on” and what we’re “most interested in”? Read more...
Should Big Journalism Take a “Leak”?
January 27, 2011 at 5:08 PM EST
Is WikiLeaks mission a new form of journalism? The answer used to depend on your admiration level for a certain Neil Patrick Harris look-a-like, but with the development of similar sites around the world, the question is getting much larger. Read more...
A Matter of Trust
January 21, 2011 at 2:57 AM EST
PBS is the most trusted news organization in the country, or so says a recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) blog in their second annual "TV News Trust Poll." Read more...