Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2012/November

ProPublica opportunity to come to New York & work on data-driven investigative journalism

Hi! Not sure where to put this but I thought some Wikinews folks might be interested.

The ProPublica Pair Programming Project helps journalists learn and work on investigations that require some programming skill. Their blog entry about a participant says that the program "brings journalists from newsrooms around the country and the world who are starting to do interactive data applications inside their newsrooms but who could use the inspiration, support and and guidance of a large news apps team. While they're here, P5 participants will either work on a project they've been working on, or jump onto a project we've got in the works." They also have scholarships available: the application form says, "We expect your home newsroom to support your participation in this program by paying for your travel and lodging in New York, but if we've got funds to help if you really need it."

Maybe one of the Wikinews contributors has a project in mind? Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 21:52, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Impartiality

I put this under policy, but in the event it doesnt "belong" there I am posting it here as well.

I would like to comment on news coverage from wikinews. I understand it is user contributed and this might lead to under or over representation depending on who is writing articles. For example if FARC members continually reported on news articles it would lead to a one sided view of the conflict in Colombia. It is my opinion that wikinews posts are continuously pro Palestinian. I am going to refrain from expressing my beliefs, and I do not have statistics, but it seems many or most of the articles written only share one side of the story. Currently in the past week there have been 3 breaking news stories about the assassination of a Hamas member, Hamas shooting down an f 16, and Israel striking a news building. There has not been one about an Israelis dying from rocket strikes, or one about the start of rocket attacks which preceded the assassination and operation iron pillar. I am not expressing thoughts as to the validity of either sides arguments, but noting the consistent lack of balanced reporting. I know articles are user submitted, but articles representing news inside of Israel are not present and it gives wikinews the appearance of partiality. I do not want to argue and will not respond to anything about who is right, or whose fault what is because you have missed the point of this post. It is my opinion the stories are reported very one sided.Eframgoldberg (talk) 02:43, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

I replied at the policy water cooler.

In case of uncertainty, post in one place and if it's the wrong place we'd move the discussion. --Pi zero (talk) 03:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

meta:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of English Wikinews

Wikinews contributors, you may be interested in contributing your opinions to this discussion: meta:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of English Wikinews. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 14:43, 19 November 2012 (UTC)