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Last night selected PBS stations around the country participated in a public journalism project called Deliberation Day. Excerpts from the last night’s program are available now at the PBS website.

The transcript is available on a presidential electon Fact Checking segment Terence Smith had on PBS’s NewsHour last night. Panelists included Michael Getler, ombudsman for the Washington Post, Brooks Jackson, director of factcheck.Org, and Jake Tapper, an ABC News fact-checker.

This from a The Pew Internet & American Life Project press release:
Twenty-six percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have rated a product, service, or person using an online rating system. These systems, also referred to as “reputation systems,” are interactive word-of-mouth networks that assist people in making decisions about which users to trust, [...]

Citizens are not the only ones disappointed with this election year’s coverage. Nearly three quarters of 500 members of the Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) gave the press a C, D or F grade for its campaign coverage so far.
The CCJ did an informal survey to which 500 members responded. The CCJ press release [...]

The APME Gazette, published at the Associated Press Managing Editors conference in Louisville, has a story about a handful of readers who participated in the APME’s Credibility Roundtables and are now “embedded” in this year’s APME conference.
Here is an excerpt from the story:
John Bates, a social worker from Newark, Del., said he now [...]