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Or they could just be acting as gatekeepers to the information so they can make money / awards as their stories are published. Could be either reason.
by spullara 11y ago
Or they could just be acting as gatekeepers to the information so they can make money / awards as their stories are published. Could be either reason.
- danso 11y agoDoubtful. Journalists are not particularly savvy at monetizing their work beyond the normal publication channels. The only news org that I can think of that has organized anything remotely like that is ProPublica and its Data Store: https://projects.propublica.org/data-store/ https://projects.propublica.org/data-store/ It publishes for free the public data that it has collated. For datasets in which they've put significant amount of work wrangling and vetting it, they charge fees. I don't know how much money they've recouped from that but them being a non-profit, if it were enough to change the game, we'd probably hear about it at some point.