comparemela.com

Page 4 - Matt Waite News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Diving in with the DN: Reflecting on one year of covering COVID

On this special Daily Nebraskan podcast, COVID-19 section co-editors Zach Wending and David Berman sit down with 2019-2020 editor-in-chief Karissa Schmidt, current editor-in-chief Grace Gorenflo and general manager Allen Vaughan

Good read about the transfer portal

Good read about the transfer portal There's been a lot of freaking out around here about football players transferring, and it's the first week of sports data class, so I decided for a first day class demo to break down the transfer portal. Strap in Husker fans, a thread. Matt Waite (@mattwaite) January 29, […]

The future of fact-checking is all about structured data

The future of fact-checking is all about structured data “Liars say the same things over and over, which makes the fact-check we wrote last week or last month valuable for an extended period.” Okay, I didn’t do so well with my 2020 predictions. I was wrong that fact-checkers would win a Nobel Prize. And no, Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron didn’t star in a movie about fact-checking, nor did Taylor Swift make it the focus of a hit song that she performed at the Super Bowl. But there was a lot of fact-checking in 2020! Indeed, there was an avalanche of Pinocchios and Pants on Fire ratings, plus tremendous growth in embedded fact-checks, the practice when reporters assess claims right in their news stories with words such as “baseless” or “unfounded.” And during the presidential debates, a few outlets (including PolitiFact, the website I started) had promising results with experiments in live on-screen fact-checking.

© 2025 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.