Kim Pearson

Civic Media Researcher

December 31, 2009
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What should journalists know of philosophy?

Carlin Romano, critic at large for the Chronicle of Higher Education and former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, has taken heat for his recent essay arguing that more philosophers ought to be taking up journalism as a focus of inquiry, … Continue reading

December 8, 2009
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New fantasy app: GIGO for public databases and websites

One of the most important and powerful features of computational journalism is the ability to pull information from multiple databases and remix them in a variety of ways. Of course, that means that errors in those databases will be compounded … Continue reading