INTERESTING: "Deep Throat Meets Data Mining"
“Deep Throat Meets Data Mining”
by JOHN MECKLIN
Dec 23, 2008 in Miller-McCune
“If you pay passing attention to the media landscape, you know that most mainstream news outlets have had their business models undermined by the digital revolution. As their general-interest monopolies have been pillaged by niche online competitors, traditional news organizations have lost revenue and cachet, laying off journalists in waves that have grown into tsunamis. This process has created dire prospects for the future of investigative reporting, often seen as the most costly of journalistic forms.”
Goes on to mention Computational Journalism and our (at GA Tech) and recent Duke University’s efforts in this space and few others.