by Dan Gillmor | Feb 18, 2018 | Blog
Dan Gillmor If transparency is an essential principle for a news organization, nowhere is that more important than in how it handles corrections. A team at The Kansas City Star aims to help their newsroom be a leader in the news industry in doing this right. Before I...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
Day: January 30, 2018 The question on the table at New America, a Washington think tank, was deliberately provocative: “Who’s afraid of online speech?” With the backdrop of a presidential State of the Union address, prospects of mega-meddling with...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog
Day: January 15, 2018 In the modern world, you’re unusual, to put it mildly, if you haven’t looked online for information about a medical issue. And if you have, you are aware — or should be — of the avalanche of junk science, sleazy marketing, and other questionable...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 14, 2018 | Blog
Day: January 14, 2018 In 2009, as I was working on a book about media literacy, I published a list of “rules” describing how I’d like to see journalism organizations operate in an age of digital communications. Social media hadn’t become remotely as ubiquitous then as...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 14, 2018 | Blog
Day: January 14, 2018 The Florida Time-Union in Jacksonville, working with ProPublica, did some spectacular data-driven journalism recently. It showed how “disproportionate numbers of (pedestrian) tickets in Jacksonville and elsewhere have gone to blacks, and...
