This broke last week and I just saw it on MediaShift
Idea Lab. The sad part: few newsrooms even know what that means. The good news: techies do and much is expected. As JD Lasica notes:
Newspapers remain the richest source of news and information, both current and archived, in any locality. For every journalist on staff at a mid-size daily, I'll wager there are at least 10 data jockeys willing to dive into some aspect of its datastream to create an interesting new map, widget, chart, game, animation, virtual space -- anything that feeds off a rich source of data.
