Duke Reporters' Lab
| Duke Reporters' Lab | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Durham, NC. |
| Type: | Educational and Research Center |
| Top official: | Bill Adair, Director |
| Founder(s): | Sarah Cohen |
| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Website: | Official website |
The Reporters' Lab is a research institute at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. It is a project of the school's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and focuses on "new forms of journalism" such as fact-checking and structured journalism.
Mission
On its website, the Reporters' Lab says that it:[1]
| “ | explores new forms of journalism, including fact-checking, which is growing around the world, empowering democracies and holding governments accountable, and structured journalism, which creates new forms of storytelling and beat reporting.[2] | ” |
Background
Sarah Cohen, a former database editor and reporter at The Washington Post, founded the Reporters' Lab in 2011. At the time, Cohen was the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. In announcing the Lab in 2011, she said that it:[3]
| “ | aims to do for modern reporting what photocopiers did in the 1970s, and e-mail, the Web, spreadsheets and databases did in the 1990s. It will go beyond the hype to test, create, commission or apply new methods to make the hard work of original reporting easier or more effective. It will guide reporters to the right tool for an immediate job, from sorting a handwritten government sign-in sheet to finding the contractor’s testimony in the school board meeting webcast.[2] | ” |
Cohen remained director of the Lab until 2013. Bill Adair took over in July of that year.[4]
Since its founding, the Lab has developed specializations in fact-checking and structured journalism, an interactive and non-narrative driven form of journalism.[5] The Lab's website features a list and map of fact-checking organizations from around the world and a series of stories experimenting with structured journalism.[6][7]
Staff
- Bill Adair, Director
- Mark Stencel, Co-director
The Reporters' Lab maintains a team of student researchers. An up-to-date list can be found here.
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Reporters' Lab, "About," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Reporters' Lab, "Inauguration," May 16, 2011
- ↑ Duke.edu, "Bill Adair, PolitiFact Editor, Named Knight Professor at Duke," April 5, 2013
- ↑ Columbia Journalism Review, "'Structured journalism' offers readers a different kind of story experience," July 30, 2015
- ↑ Reporters' Lab, "Fact-checking," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ Reporters' Lab, "Structured Journalism," accessed September 21, 2015
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