by Dan Gillmor | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog, McClatchy, Partners, Transparency
Dan Gillmor Historically, journalists haven’t been pushed to show their work. We demanded transparency from the government, but old-school journalists recoiled at the idea of offering much ourselves. That’s been changing for the better, if too slowly, in America’s...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
Dan Gillmor During the second week of February, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a column that turned out to be wrong. What happened next was the catalyst for an experiment in journalistic transparency that we believe has huge potential: moving corrections along...
by Dan Gillmor | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
Dan Gillmor When The Fresno Bee published a profile of a nationally known local politician as his race for re-election heated up, the news organization faced some major hurdles — including the candidate’s refusal to be interviewed or, in fact, communicate in any...
by Dan Gillmor | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog, Kansas City, Partners
Dan Gillmor In mid-November, The Kansas City Star ran a story in the genre we might call an “explainer” — explaining what had become of the the Missouri city’s old city hall, a striking structure from the late 1800s. But this piece had elements that...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog
fake We recently did a Q&A with ASU Now, the daily newletter, about the very worrisome probability that phony videos will soon inject even more poison into our information ecosystem. We’re reposting it here, with permission: Fake news videos aren’t new, but...
