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Jack Styczynski
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The quiz results are in and I would call the overall performance “typical.” There was a wide variation in grades. Congratulations to the high scorers–Orie Givens, Aine Pennello and Divya Verma. Aine and Divya each missed one question, while Orie was perfect (with 10 minutes to spare!), minus the bonus. For the record, no one got [...]
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Time for another roundup of your work: Ilie Mitaru’s exclusive on a lawsuit claiming a transgender patient was left to die by EMS responders made Sheepshead Bites. For the Mott Haven Herald, Brianne Barry profiled a pastor who’s fought through cancer to serve. On Voices of NY, Sierra Leone Starks profiled a Scottish illustrator . Posted this month, the March edition of 219 [...] -
Points of emphasis for critical thinking: With many courts at the federal, state and local levels, there is no “one stop shopping” for court research. In most cases, you’ll need to know the jurisdiction before you can find anything. In many jurisdictions, particularly at the local levels, case information isn’t online at all. For those cases, you have no choice but [...]
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Noting the work below, it’s well-deserved… Sierra Leone Starks wrote about a library reborn in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Danielle Valente’s piece about a firm that combines fashion and philanthropy found a home in Lifestyle + Charity Magazine. Danielle was also a contributor to a News Service multimedia report on the future of the old Rockaway Railway, along with Sarah Khuwaja , Anne [...]
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You made a research nerd look (sorta) cool! The Life of Jack Styczynski from Mathilde M. Hamel on Vimeo. Update, 3/21: Thanks to Jim Coningsby for the kind words after seeing the video! March Madness bonus: It’s been a busy month doing research for stories about the (not so) fast and fraudulent , a cannibal cop and gun rights vs. protection orders , not to mention writing on hoops . (Check [...]
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The Census Bureau has one of the most valuable and densely-packed web sites you’ll encounter. You’ll constantly find new information there that will amaze you with its obscurity and level of detail. Below are some of my favorite Census Bureau pages. First and foremost is American FactFinder , which includes annual American Community Survey data. It’s the best place to get estimates since the last [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Finding statistical trends: Census tools and polls 2 months, 1 week ago · View
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Looking for video online? Of course, there’s YouTube and the like, but what about professional databases with substantial broadcast archives? The J-school has subscriptions to such databases, which also feature superior search functionality. Critical Mention was introduced in this semester’s first lesson when I mentioned getting closed captioning of programming as an alternative when transcripts are not available in Nexis and [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Finding video and graphical archives 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Presenting the semester’s first roundup of your work: For the News Service, Danielle Valente and Karen Petree covered Nolcha Fashion Week . Meanwhile, Brianne Barry and Elena Popina found some apparel controversy away from Fashion Week. On Voices of NY, Anna Teregulova followed up on a Staten Island couple recovering from Superstorm Sandy, while Sierra Leone Starks reported on free Mandarin classes [...]
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In the last two classes I mentioned I was writing about a former Times colleague’s Manti Te’o research flub…and that the profession of news researcher is headed toward extinction, as Wonbo Woo agreed. In both cases, I was referring to the same article, which you can now read here. I’d love to get your thoughts in the comments section below! Update: As my article has [...]
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Backgrounding and fact-checking are related in the sense that they both fall under the umbrella of “due diligence” or “doing your homework.” Of all the research topics we teach here at the J-school, this is probably the most important. Certainly, not doing proper backgrounding and fact-checking has the most potential to make you look bad. As I [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Backgrounding & fact-checking, a.k.a. due diligence 3 months ago · View
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Welcome (and for some, welcome back) to “The Craft of Research,” the official research blog for the Spring 2013 Broadcast Craft class of Susan Farkas . It’s the spot for research lessons, handouts, news, tips and whatever else comes up during the semester, including links to your work. For example, I know Anna Teregulova , Mathilde Hamel and (especially) Aine Pennello were busy during [...] -
One last batch of bylines to close things out right… From the Mott Haven Herald, we had Anna Teregulova’s story about a youth soccer league and a police blotter by Irina Ivanova and Shamanth Rao. Individually, Irina’s story about the vintage book movement made the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Shamanth’s profile of Lloyd Ultan, the Bronx’s borough historian , was [...]
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The quizzes are all graded and the class as a whole did better than any group I’ve ever had, by a wide margin. Congrats! Almost everyone scored in “double digits,” led by Irina Ivanova and Nick Wells, who each got 15.5 out of a possible 16.5 points. Nick in fact got full credit for all the main questions, missing [...]
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Points of emphasis for critical thinking: There’s more to search engines than just plugging in words. The best searchers use the advanced features . There are many places to find Google tips . No mainstream search engines, even Google, search anywhere close to the entire web. They don’t index every page or database result, nor the entirety of many longer documents. What’s not retrievable [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Mining the web like a pro: Google and beyond 5 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Points of emphasis for critical thinking: With many courts at the federal, state and local levels, there is no “one stop shopping” for court research. In most cases, you’ll need to know the jurisdiction before you can find anything. In many jurisdictions, particularly at the local levels, case information isn’t online at all. For those cases, you have no choice but [...]
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More bylines, no turkeys… Michael Russell contributed to a video report on gourmet food trucks delivering free meals to struggling Red Hook residents. The latest from the Mott Haven Herald includes Brianne Barry’s piece about a church’s 125th anniversary , Anna Teregulova’s story about a rally to save a school , Nicholas Wells’ article about FreshDirect’s controversial early entry into its [...]
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If you choose this option for your enterprise assignment, it should be a three-step process. Find a newsworthy statistic that interests you. Compare it to something. (e.g. other geographic areas, the same statistic in previous years, etc.) Use reporting, and possibly more research, to determine and explain why your number compares as it does. This will certainly involve identifying and [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Research-inspired enterprise option 6 months, 1 week ago · View
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Points of emphasis for critical thinking: Experts should be one of your first thoughts as a source of information on any subject. They can lend authority, accuracy, balance and credibility to your stories. They may also refer you to other sources. One good way to find experts is to do a Nexis or Factiva search on your story subject and see [...]
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So you obviously survived Sandy, let alone the storm this week. I noticed Brianne Barry, Jesse Metzger, Nathan Place and Shamanth Rao all made contributions to the “Scenes of Sandy” package on the News Service. On the same theme over at the Herald, Irina Ivanova, Nicholas Wells and Alex Eidman teamed up to report the hurricane went easy on Mott Haven , [...]
Jack Styczynski wrote a new blog post: Never had a class with so many bylines! 6 months, 1 week ago · View
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Hope everyone survived Sandy unscathed. Sorry I missed you this week, especially since I know a few of you wanted to discuss your beat memos. Anyway, a big reason I had been a little slow getting them back to you last month was because I was working on this and this, which comprise an enterprise project I undertake [...] - Load more
