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  • Detroit vs Seattle: a tale of two cities through data

    Check out this Forbes interactive map Where Americans Are Moving (built with 2008 IRS data). Red indicates outgoing migration, black, incoming migration. Here’s Detroit: Now here’s Seattle:

  • Write a story with this data

    Last week I hung out at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as I saw some of the groundbreaking collaborations its students are engaged in: primarily between computer science and journalism. I get the sense that Medill is preparing for a reality of lean-and-mean newsrooms, with fewer paid staffers, allocating the grunt journalism to alternative…

  • Reclaimed?

  • Failure to communicate?

    Universally, the people we’ve spoken to here in Detroit over the last couple of days have nothing kind to say about their mainstream news sources.  They see the Detroit Free Press as disconnected from the community.  They hated a recent Dateline special about their city.  And even Time’s well-intentioned “Assignment Detroit” — in which the…