Reporters' Lab Forum Google Group

Re: Introductions

neville.cra...@cbc.ca (Neville Crabbe) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:54:12 UT

Hi, my name is Neville Crabbe. I'm a journalist with the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. I shoot, write and edit for radio and television
and have a particular interest in doing stories that people remember, but
admit, in daily news, that's not always possible. I spent the last five
years reporting from Canada's Arctic territories and am now located in

Any experience with video file splitters?

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:35:45 UT

Hey everyone,
I'm working on a Mechanical Turk project to test its ability to transcribe
video, and one of the best practices is to split up long videos into more
manageable chunks.
Can anybody recommend any good programs you've used to cut up video
automatically, preferably by lengths of time?
What I'd *really* love to have is something that could cut up chunks of

Crowdsourcing online video captioning

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:58 UT

Check out the announcement<[link]>from the Knight Foundation about Amara, a start-up that provides a platform
for captioning and subtitling online video by volunteer users. From the
post:

At Amara, we want to solve this problem at a mass scale -- we want to

Re: Introductions

arash.joorab...@gmail.com (Arash Joorabchi) — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:53:45 UT

Hi,

I am Arash Joorabchi, a postdoc researcher at University of Limerick -
Ireland. My research interest is in text mining/analytics and IR in
general. I first came across the topic of computational journalism
about a year ago via the work of Jonathan Stray (http://
jonathanstray.com/) and have been following this topic since. Most of

Scout, a notification system for gov, enters open beta

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:42:14 UT

Sunlight Labs just moved an interesting tool into public beta. It's called
Scout <[link]>, and it's a
custom alert system to notify users about activity in state and federal
government. Here's more from Sunlight's Eric Mill:
Scout <[link]> is an alert system for the

Re: Introductions

t...@knowtheory.net (knowtheory) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:14:04 UT

Hey folks,

I'm Ted Han, lead developer for Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) on
DocumentCloud.

I'm a linguist by degree, a software developer by trade and a scifi nerd
(well, nerd in general really) by leisure. As someone who came to software
development through the side door, I've got strong feelings about the

Mining big data with a "hypothesis generator"

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:58:24 UT

I wrote about this <[link]> a
little while back, but figured some of you might find it interesting. A new
tool developed by Harvard and MIT researchers can help you find some
interesting correlations in massive sets of numerical data. The underlying
concepts are pretty statistics heavy, but the tool is downloadable and easy

What's a major investigative series worth? About $200,000.

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:54:44 UT

Wanted to share an interesting figure from one of our write-ups last week.
John Drescher, executive editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.,
estimates that his paper spends anywhere from $150,000-$200,000<[link]>on each major investigative series. As newsroom staffs shrink, is it

NYT joins Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, plus new fellowship info

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:52:32 UT

Looks like there will be more on this at SXSW, but four big news
organizations just joined the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, aimed at
driving open-source innovation in journalism. From the press release<[link]>
The announcement will be made at SXSW <[link]> on Saturday,

Re: [Reporters' Lab Forum] And we're relaunched!

gregli...@gmail.com (Greg Linch) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:30:52 UT

Congrats, and nice work!

And we're relaunched!

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:06 UT

Hey everybody,
Just wanted to let you know that we officially relaunched the site this
morning. Check it out <[link]> and tell us what you
think. And thank you for being a part of our project!
Tyler Dukes
Managing Editor
Reporters' Lab

Open-source mapping library from ProPublica

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:45:46 UT

I know some of you on the list have done a lot of work with mapping, so I
thought you may find this useful: The developers at ProPublica decided to
open source their mapping framework, Simple Tiles<[link]>,
today. From their Github:

$10K prize for best city data mashup

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:16:47 UT

Thought this might be of interest to some of the developers in our group.
BuzzData is offering a $10,000 prize <[link]>to the person or team to create the most convincing data mashup showing the
best place in the world to live. Judging panel looks pretty impressive:

Re: A Wikileaks for rural Appalachia

tyler.du...@gmail.com (Tyler Dukes) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:53:30 UT

Will do. It looks like they've posted the code for their site and upload
tech on GitHub here:
[link]
I'll share any additional details that might be interesting.

Re: A Wikileaks for rural Appalachia

jhibb...@redhat.com (jhibbets) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:45:12 UT

Hi Tyler,

If you happen to investigate this futher, we might be interested in
the open source beyond technology twist of the story...also we'd be
interseted in the tool they're developing (for opensource.com).

I don't know much about it other than it soundes interesting.
Jason