Malark-O-Meter by Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell (legally named Benjamin Hanowell) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Today, I met with Sarah Stuteville, Lecturer in Communications at University of Washington, and Co-founder/Editor of the Common Language Project (CLP). The CLP is a nonprofit, multimedia journalism organization that focuses on international reporting, local reporting in the Puget Sound region, and journalism in education. I asked for Stuteville's advice about the direction of Malark-O-Meter because CLP has a strategic relationship with the University of Washington that I would like Malark-O-Meter (or whatever it becomes) to mirror.
So the questions I had for Sarah were understandably about how to build an organization that the UW would want to team up with. Based on Sarah's description of the history of CLP's relationship with UW, I gleaned the following valuable pieces of advice. To attract university paternship, I need to develop credibility and get some independent funding. Makes sense. I also should be sure to have a set of deliverables that the UW would see as providing it with return on investment of resources and time. Also makes sense. Furthermore, I should be sure that what Malark-O-Meter's deliverables engage not only faculty, but students. One of CLP's strengths is that its multimedia journalism activities are fully embedded into the curriculum of the Department of Communications. I explained to Sarah an idea I have that would engage students in fact checking activities, which would prime crowd-sourced data collection instrument that I could use to comparatively assess the supposed biases of professional fact checkers relative to nonprofessionals. Sarah also provided me with an awesome list of highly relevant contacts to reach in the meantime. I cannot wait to meet some of the people whom she mentioned. Anyway, thanks to Sarah Stuteville for agreeing to a helpful meeting.
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