Computational Journalism

Date: 
02/26/2008
Venue: 
Georgia Tech

Andrew Haeg from MPR's Public Insight Journalism program is blowing my mind. The work they do isn't massive in scale, but it's exactly right: They're building a database of citizen expertise over time, and they can query it in lots of interesting ways. It's a complete reinvention of sourcing. It's not only electronic, either: They often bridge the gap and bring members of their database together in the physical world.