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We are meeting up on International Open Data Day to catch up and work on the Urban Data Challenge (February 6 - March 31) projects kicked off at Lift Conference 13 (plus inspire everyone who was not there to start one too!), then have a video conference with teams in San Francisco, and tune in to all the Open Data happenings around the world this weekend.
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Many journalists aren’t paying attention to how governments are opening up data. Part of that is cultural. Governments do keep secrets. As the amount of information grows, so do the secrets. Good journalists, operating ethically, try to reveal the secrets that should be public. We often find ourselves, with the help of organizations like the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the National Freedom of Information Coalition, suing the government to force it to obey its own open records laws. In addition, news organizations and state freedom of information groups tenaciously demand better open government laws.
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This interview is part of our ongoing look at the people, tools and techniques driving data journalism. I first met Justin Arenstein (@justinarenstein) in Chişinău, Moldova, where the media... Delete the scoop?
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