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Bill Adair, incoming Knight Chair at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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PolitiFact editor Bill Adair named Duke Knight chair

Guest Posts//April 9, 2013

Bill Adair, creator and editor of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning PolitiFact, has been appointed the Knight Professor of Computational Journalism at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Read More »

Tagged Bill Adair // Jay Hamilton // Knight chair // Politifact // Tampa Bay Times
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Data security or death

Tyler Dukes//February 18, 2013

On a recent episode of the Spark Tech Talk podcast, the lab’s managing editor moderates a discussion among experts in electronic privacy and security — an area growing more and more important for journalists both home and abroad. Read More »

Tagged cryptography // encryption // privacy // secu
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Reporters’ Lab: Same as it ever was

Sarah Cohen//June 20, 2012

Despite all the buzz over lab Director Sarah Cohen’s move to the New York Times’ reporting staff, Cohen says she and Duke University remain committed to the lab — meaning it will be business as usual for readers. Read More »

Tagged Duke // The New York Times
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Sign up to beta test Video Notebook

Tyler Dukes//June 12, 2012

We’ve worked with a few journalists to test Video Notebook, our new tool to help reporters annotate and analyze audio and video. Now it’s your turn to give it a test drive and check out a quick video walkthrough. Read More »

Tagged audio // social media // transcription // video // video notebook
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