Category: Journalism
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History of The Documenters Program at City Bureau
Here’s a post from City Bureau founder Andrea Hart about the origins of the Documenters Program, which I co-created with Kyla Williams at Smart Chicago: How Did City Bureau’s Documenters Program Get Started? Snip: The original Documenters Program was created by Daniel X. O’Neil and Kyla Williams at the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic-technology funder collaborative founded in 2011 by…
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A New Set of Voqal Grants in Chicago
Today Voqal announced a series of new grants here in Chicago. Here’s a snip from their press release: The Voqal Fund is pleased to announce six new grants to organizations working in the Chicago area to enhance the community and strengthen social equity. The grants to Chicago Filmmakers (Chicago Digital Media Production Fund), BYP100, Illinois…
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Documenters for the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force meetings
This month I conceived, led, and participated in the documentation of the four community forums hosted by the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force. The work, centered at Smart Chicago, is a part of the Documenters program. Here’s a snip from a blog post I wrote, kicking off this particular work with the CPATF: We care about…
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Knight News Challenge Open Gov Round
I served as a Reader for the Knight News Challenge Open Gov Round. It was a great experience that helped me sharpen the focus of my work in the civic innovation sector of the technology industry. Some of my writing was reffed in the preview blog post: News Challenge on open gov launches Feb. 12…
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Panel: FOIA Fest!
Today I participated in a panel discussion for the Chicago Headline Club, described by Fernandio Diaz as follows: Citizen Advocacy Center’s Terry Pastika, the Northwestern University Knight Lab’s Joe Germuska and Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Dan O’Neil will discuss efforts to influence policy and legislation and how technology can improve access to public records. Here’s coverage…
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Radio: Discussion on WBEZ’s Morning Shift re: Data Journalism and the Civic Innovation in Chicago Project
This morning I participated in a discussion about the launch of Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Civic Innovation in Chicago project on WBEZ: Bonus: Dolly Varden! I also wrote a companion blog post talking about the importance of including as many Chicago residents as possible in civic innovation. Click here for sound file if embed link is…
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Journalism Study: Interviewed as Part of a Study of Data-Driven Journalists
Here’s a link to a paper published today by: Data-driven journalism and the public good: “Computer-assisted-reporters” and “programmer-journalists” in Chicago. Here’s the abstract: Since the mid-2000s, some US and British news organizations have hired programmers to design data-driven news projects within the newsroom. But how does the rise of these “programmer-journalists,” armed with their skills and…
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Presentation: KCIC Boot Camp
Today I spoke at the Knight Community Information Challenge Boot Camp, talking about how to use data in journalism. Here’s the slides I used for discussion. Working With Data and Humans from Daniel X. O’Neil
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Aspen FOCAS 2012: Toward Open and Innovative Governance
Over the last few days, I participated in FOCAS 2012: Toward Open and Innovative Governance at the Aspen Institute. It was an enlightening and invigorating experience. Here’s some media that came out of the conference: I took a goodly number of nature shots: And some videos of my contributions: Daniel X. O’Neil Remarks at Aspen Institute…
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PANEL: Turning Data into Narrative at “The Story & The Algorithm: 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference”
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. Here’s my bit: PANEL: Turning Data Into Narrative from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s relevant snips from the conference live blog: Dan O’Neil is the Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, which funds and fosters civic and municipal innovation. Next…