Bad News

Columbia Journalism Review | Mar. 15, 2010 (Other)

They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism. The students, along with other NewsTrust users, spent... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 15, 2010

Informative article about Stanford Professor Howard Rheingold's experiment to teach 'crap detection' to his journalism students, in collaboration with NewsTrust. This article is factual and fair, but could have included a couple more sources, to provide independent perspectives on this story.

Disclosure: This story describes NewsTrust's "News Hunt for Bad Journalism" -- which I helped organize with our board member Howard Rheingold. Because of this conflict of interest, my rating will not be counted for this story.

Disclosure: Fabrice is involved in this story as the subject (review not included in overall rating).

Fabrice posted this story.