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Precision Journalism 101

Listen to Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, and Philip Meyer, recently retired Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, discuss the past and future of precision journalism.  They share examples of how social science techniques and advances in personal computing have given journalists the tools to find stories that matter.

Click to hear the audio file, edited from “Precision Journalism: Where we’ve come from and where we’re going,” a panel at the 2008 IRE Conference in Miami.

It might even inspire you to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Postmark deadline: Oct. 31.

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