Why don't journalists mention the data?

Don't mention it: Why people don't share job information, when they do, and why it matters

Dont ask why things went wrong Nested Reputation and Scapegoating Ine¢ ciencyy

Scapegoating is a source of ine¢ ciency in organizations. This is a commonly held view. But despite its commonality and its use as a justi…cation for reforms designed to reduce scapegoating, no formal model has been developed to explain why and when this is the case. We propose an explanation by focusing on how superiors make decisions inside an organization when they only care about reputation...

Eric Dagiral and ' ' programmer - journalists ' ' in Chicago Data - driven journalism

Since the mid-2000s, some US and British news organizations have hired programmers to design data-driven news projects within the newsroom. But how does the rise of these “programmer-journalists,” armed with their skills and technical artifacts, really affect the way journalism can contribute to the public good? Based on an empirical study in Chicago, we show in this article that although they ...

Journalists, district attorneys and researchers: why IRBs should get in the middle

BACKGROUND Federal regulations in the United States have shaped Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to focus on protecting individual human subjects. Health services research studies focusing on healthcare institutions such as hospitals or clinics do not have individual human subjects. Since U.S. federal regulations are silent on what type of review, if any, these studies require, different IRBs...

Joint Mention Extraction and Classification with Mention Hypergraphs

We present a novel model for the task of joint mention extraction and classification. Unlike existing approaches, our model is able to effectively capture overlapping mentions with unbounded lengths. The model is highly scalable, with a time complexity that is linear in the number of words in the input sentence and linear in the number of possible mention classes. Our model can be extended to a...