by Dan Gillmor | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Mediactive
Dan Gillmor The third session of the News Co/Lab’s free, adaptive course kicks off Oct. 5. Learn more about Mediactive: How to participate in our digital world. Could someone you know use some help in navigating our complex world of information? Understand how to sift...
by Dan Gillmor | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
Blog We’re happy to report that our journalism corrections tool — helping news organizations send story corrections and major updates down the same social media paths as the original stories — is now in the field for testing. Ted Han, our amazing software developer,...
by Dan Gillmor | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Dan Gillmor by Dan Gillmor and Kristy Roschke Like most people, we’ve been glued to breaking COVID-19 news coverage. We regularly visit local and national news sites for the latest. We also regularly run into a fundamental flaw in how news works. Far too often,...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Blog This blog is cross-posted from Medium, where it originally appeared March 8. It’s Sunday, March 8. Two of America’s best journalism organizations are featuring deep looks into the confusion, incompetence, and outright malfeasance that has marked the Trump...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 5, 2020 | Corrections
Corrections The ASU News Co/Lab is going deep on corrections. Not jails and prisons, but the mea culpas journalists offer when they’ve erred in their public work. Forthright corrections and major updates are an essential kind of transparency. They’re also by far the...