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Well here is a new twist on the downfall of Journalism via Slashdot
| Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism |
| from the radical-transparency dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, @16:49 (The Media) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/04/2026205 |
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[0]John Mecklin sends in word of initiatives through which the digital
revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to
give something back, through a new academic and professional discipline
known as "[1]computational journalism." "James Hamilton, director of the
DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University, is in
the process of filling an endowed chair with a professor who will develop
sophisticated computing tools that enhance the capabilities — and,
perhaps more important in this economic climate, the efficiency — of
journalists and other citizens who are trying to hold public officials
and institutions accountable. The goal: Computer algorithms that can sort
through the huge amounts of databased information available on the
Internet, providing public-interest reporters with sets of potential
story leads they otherwise might never have found. Or, in short, data
mining in the public interest."

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Links:
0. mailto:john.mecklin@miller-mccune.com
1. http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/deep-throat-meets-data-mining