Adding the Source (to News)

Purpose: Add sources (back) into news stories via crowdsourcing and large-scale automated text-matching

Most news articles give little or no indication of the source of their material. However, research shows [^1] that a vast amount of news output from top newspapers, especially online, is recycled directly from the news wires or press releases.

In this project we will do 2 things:

Exploit the possibilities of large-scale automated text-matching to automatically identify and document such recycling providing a way for readers to "add the source" back into what they read.
Provide ways for users to add these sources themselves via a website (or bookmarklet javascript approach)

Colophon: Originally suggested in June '09 - see http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Adding_the_Source

[^1]: see Flat Earth News

news texts text-analysis

submitted 20 Dec '10, 10:14

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edited 08 Jan '11, 16:42

How do we get access to the primary sources?

(19 Sep '11, 23:37) tim mcnamara

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c.f. http://churnalism.com

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solved 16 Dec '11, 11:33

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edited 20 Dec '11, 13:54

rgrp ♦♦
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Yes, this is a great project of the Media Standards Trust and aims to do quite a bit of what this idea proposed so I'm going to mark as solved.

(20 Dec '11, 13:55) rgrp ♦♦

0	Something in a similar vein that I've been playing with: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picpkmaappojkplnfcpjjolpgkccboel?hl=en-US link solved 11 Sep '11, 00:51 beng 1 accept rate: 0% edited 20 Dec '11, 13:55 rgrp ♦♦ 646●19●31●34

0	I'm interested in this and have background in "related text" ops. (zemanta / solr "more like this" / entity extraction ....). link solved 26 Apr, 00:21 dcht00 1●1 accept rate: 0%

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