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@pandaproject, a newsroom data app that provides a place to store, search and share data

 

KNIGHT FOUNDATION BLOG

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Brian Boyer, news applications editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes PANDA in a video by Jon Vidar.

Earlier this month PANDA, which helps news organizations better use public information by creating new software that cleans up and helps analyze it, went beta.

Users can now test PANDA Project Alpha and give feedback on how it’s doing.

Above, Brian Boyer describes the project’s latest developments.

Boyer is news applications editor at the Chicago Tribune, where he was the 2010 employee of the year. [Read more…]

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KF Alumn to lead Knight Mozilla Effort

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KNIGHT GARAGE – By PAM MAPLES

Dan Sinker, a 2008 Knight Fellow, is joining Mozilla to lead the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.

The program is funded by the Knight Foundation and run by Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser. The goal is to help create deeper collaboration between journalists and technologists through a series of design challenges like this one in San Francisco last spring,  learning labs and a fellowship program that puts developers in residence at newsrooms around the world. This year, the partner newsrooms for fellows are Al Jazeera, the BBC, the Guardian, Die Zeit and the Boston Globe. [Read more…]