Category Archives: Wilson Quarterly

June 12, 2011 · 7:59 pm

More journalistic data mining in the public interest

When you have Associated Press nerd-journalist extraordinaire Jonathan Stray giving a brilliant explanation of the use of data-mining strategies to wring the sense out of massive numbers of documents — such as the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs released by Wikileaks — you go with it. And I do mean brilliant. Every investigative reporter in America ought to listen to all 19+ minutes of this audio-powerpoint presentation. (Big h/t to Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings.)

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May 18, 2011 · 5:15 pm

Magazines, wristwatches and prophylaxis

I’d missed this piece by Steve Lagerfeld, editor of the Wilson Quarterly, when it was posted in March, but I think it a fine head-scratcher about the dilemma facing print magazines in digital times. But that’s not why I’m suggesting you look at “Why a Magazine is Like a Wristwatch.” I think you should read this piece all the way through for its last line, which is a wonderfully unexpected doozy for the Wilson Quarterly, which is a wonderful and important publication that has never, to my knowledge, been described with the adjective “racy.”