• Advice to journalism students for being online. | AndyDickinson.net

  I tweeted this as being applicable will the word ‘students’ removed, and the horrific conduct by certain publications and individuals following the WDBJ7 shootings makes me only more entrenched in that point of view.

  tags: advice how-to

• Why Johnston Press is right to consider a merger | The Drum

  “Mergers by themselves won’t save the local newspaper industry, but thoughtful consolidation, a commitment to quality long-term planning and the adoption of new ways of working, along with an acceptance that the old days of bounty are gone for good, will certainly bode well.”

  tags: merger press future+of+news

• Piecing together open source evidence from the Syrian Sarin attacks — First Draft News

  Just an amazing piece of journalism. Recommended reading.

• Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links – New Scientist

  This is fascinating and I’d love to see it happen.
  “A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system – which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a page. “A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy,” says the team (arxiv.org/abs/1502.03519v1). The score they compute for each page is its Knowledge-Based Trust score.”

  tags: google facts links

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