Craig Newmark: An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
Craig Newmark: Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that restoring trust to the new business via fact checking might be an idea whose time has come. It won't...
Craig Newmark: Restoring Fact-checking
Recently, Jeff Jarvis held an event on restoring fact-checking to the news business. Here's my very brief attempt at getting my head around what happened and what's happening with big deal fact-checking.
Craig Newmark: Who Rules Social Media? A Look At Social Media Impact By Nonprofit Issues
While it is remarkable to see the variations in social media use by area of focus among nonprofits, the bottom line is that your main concern should be to cultivate conversations, relationships, and interactions within your own specific community.
Craig Newmark: Help TruthSquad do factchecking in Baltimore
Hey, it's up to us to do the factchecking that we see little of, in TV or newspapers. The folks at Truthsquad are pioneering local...
Craig Newmark: iWatchNews, trustworthy journalism from Center for Public Integrity
Folks, you might remember I really support the Center for Public Integrity, one of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organizations. The...
Craig Newmark: Classified listings scraper and CL wannabe Oodle has paid AIM Group to falsely portray craigslist
(reposted from the craigslist official blog by Jim Buckmaster) Pay-to-Play "Research" from AIM Classified listings scraper/aggregator and CL wannabe Oodle has paid AIM Group to...
Craig Newmark: Getting good advice about storytelling from Peter Guber
Hey, nerds need help getting more effective helping the causes they believe in, and Peter gives really good advice from a lot of real-life...
Craig Newmark: Politifact: gop-pledge-o-meter joins the obameter
The folks at Politifact do some really serious fact checking of politicians, holding them accountable. The GOP Pledge-O-Meter follows dozens of promises made in 2010...
Craig Newmark: Truthsquad and crowdsourced fact-checking
We need news we can trust, and fact-checking is required for that. It's not easy to do, it can be expensive and time-consuming. It's...
Craig Newmark: "Dollars for Docs" public service media from ProPublica
Hey, the folks at ProPublica do true public service media, funded philanthropically and according to a strict code of ethics. The code is a really...
Craig Newmark: ProPublica documents big safety culture problems at BP
The folks at ProPublica do trustworthy journalism based on a really strong ethical practice. They just published a new story: Furious Growth and Cost Cuts...
