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Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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Typing Journalism Fatalities

Julian Koschwitz, an interactive art director based in Italy, created On Journalism #2 Typewriter, an installation that generates stories about all journalists killed from 1992 - 2011.

The data comes from the Committee to Protect Journalists and is fed from computer to typewriter where stories are written out on an endless sheet of paper.

Via Julian Koschwitz:

The individual stories are connected through common fields of coverage, places, professions and many other aspects. Besides the text the typewriter creates also images e.g. flags which are heavier distorted the more journalists got killed in that particular country…

…The software creates information graphics about the statistics in the data-set (e.g. how many have been killed in which country, which professions etc.) to connect them to the individual stories of the journalists.

“When we look at digital news what we see is technology, not the journalists who provide the news,” Koschwitz tells Journalism.co.uk. “This project is to remember the journalists who are the interfaces. It makes us aware of who is providing the news, who is risking their lives to give us a tweet.”

On Journalism #2 Typewriter, by Julian Koschwitz. Select to embiggen.

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