[ddj] Journalists may learn how to code, but how do we measure how well they report?

Wed Oct 24 13:48:50 UTC 2012

It is well and good that we discuss journalists learning how to code, but
that is secondary to how well they report events.  For example, for many
events that are only covered by one journalist from a biased paper or,
heaven forbid, a journalist with a bias, we now have full videos (city and
county and parish meetings) to compare to the reports that are published.
 The problem is comparing the two.   It is easy enough to download the
printed report but it takes massive amounts of time to transcribe a video
of just a two hour meeting.

Could journalists learn how to code some type of sampling method that could
be used to reliably compare written to video reports?  I would think that
if the written reports are wildly different from the videos, that could be
an excellent predicter of newspaper failure, if not financial struggles.

Related topic is anyone on this list a member of Journet (United Nations)
group?

Any suggestions?

Dwight Hines
IndyMedia
Maine
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