{"id":367,"date":"2013-04-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/24\/churnalism-holding-journalists-accountable\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:20","slug":"churnalism-holding-journalists-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/24\/churnalism-holding-journalists-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Churnalism: Holding Journalists Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.<\/i>
Douglas Adams<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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by flicker user anniemole<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When it comes to writing, we all have to face down deadlines. Whether it’s a student working on a term paper, a librarian trying to come up with a blog post, or a journalist covering a breaking story. And, all too often we are all tempted to copy and paste just a line or two from someone else.<\/p>\n

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Well, things may have just gotten a little tougher for journalists in the US<\/a> seeking to take a shortcut. The Sunlight Foundation<\/a>, a non-profit organization who’s mission<\/a> is to make government more transparent, has partnered with Media Standards Trust<\/a>, from the UK, to release Churnalism US<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The service, delivered as a website or browser extension, checks articles against other published works to see if text has been lifted from somewhere else. Based on an open source search platform<\/a>, Churnalism compares the submitted text against a selection of sites<\/a> that publish government and corporate press releases. It then displays the results side-by-side, highlighting and linking suspicious text blocks.<\/p>\n

Besides being a tool to catch plagiarism from deadline-crunched journalists, Churnalism can also serve to detect those who are purposefully misrepresenting their subjects. Sometimes authors with a particular agenda will selectively quote their subjects in order to make a story more juicy or to try and influence their readers. In its side-by-side comparison mode, Churnalism can make it easier to spot such selective quoting.<\/p>\n

Check it out, catching deceptive journalists has never been so fun!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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