{"id":1636,"date":"2017-07-24T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/midway4\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T05:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T05:46:05","slug":"midway4","status":"publish","type":"ona_session","link":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/midway4\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Information Better: New Ways to Research and Access Information [Midway]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s data available about seemingly every subject imaginable. But how do you know what is reliable and what sort of verification should you be seeking? Comparing human vs. machine-gathered information adds another layer to these questions. This session looks at how data and journalism play a role in our post-truth society and the surprising and incongruous ways that journalists are finding and sharing information \u2014 and how that will look in the future.<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<b>Moderator: Nancy Watzman<\/b>, Managing Editor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/tv\">TV News Archive<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive <\/a> and Director of Strategic Initiatives for  <a href=\"http:\/\/dotconnectorstudio.com\/\">Dot Connector Studio <\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<b>Speakers:<\/b><br \/>\n<ul><br \/>\n        <li><b>Justin Varilek<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackpack.press\/\">Hack Pack<\/a>, a network that connects journalists, fixers, photographers, videographers, editors and experts in more than 135 countries.<\/li><br \/>\n        <li><b>James Gray<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.world\/\">data.world<\/a>, a repository of data sets and users working together to analyze and extract meaning.<\/li><br \/>\n        <li><b>Mike Philips<\/b>,<a href=\"https:\/\/vigilant.cc\/\">Vigilant<\/a>, a tool that allows you to search and monitor hundreds of public record databases simultaneously.<\/li><br \/>\n<hr \/><br \/>\n<i>Please note: This talk is adjacent to the Midway, in Washington Room 6<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":1507217400,"end_time":1507221000,"moderators":[[]],"hashtag":["ONA17mw"],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":["2674777"],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"tags":[],"event":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Find Information Better: New Ways to Research and Access Information [Midway] - ONA17<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/midway4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Find Information Better: New Ways to Research and Access Information [Midway] - ONA17\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#039;s data available about seemingly every subject imaginable. 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