Re: journalism award signals

One of the things that the awards idea makes me think about is 
evaluating not just a site but the organization that publishes it. 
Scientific organizations don't get journalism awards, but their 
researchers may well get prestigious scientific awards, like Nobel 
Prizes and Fields Medals. I work at a lab that's pretty conspicuous for 
its Nobels, so I don't want to emphasize that more than it deserves, but 
in general I want to make sure this list doesn't end up only making 
sense for journalistic sites.

-Annette

On 2/19/20 9:21 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote:
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>
> On 2/19/20 11:48 AM, Sastry, Nishanth wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sandro, all,
>>
>> This just a quick email to introduce myself as a new member to the 
>> group, from King’s College London. I had applied to the credible web 
>> WG several months back, but got approved by our University contact 
>> just days before, and have since been added to this email list.
>>
>> We have done a bunch of work looking at
>>
>>  1. hyper partisan websites, in the context of the US Presidential
>>     elections:
>>
>>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nrswww-2018-b/
>>       o This provided inputs for a major expose by Buzzfeed News:
>>         https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/inside-the-partisan-fight-for-your-news-feed
>>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nrswww-2020/
>>       o Showing that right leaning sites track more intensely than
>>         left leaning sites (Covered by WIRED:
>>         https://www.wired.com/story/right-left-news-site-ad-tracking/)
>>
>>  2. bias in news and social media during political crises
>>
>>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/karamshuk-16-slant/
>>
>>  3. And finally, on transferring trust across domains (which is very
>>     aligned with what I see in the signals draft. We also use age as
>>     an “ungameable” signal to transfer trust across domains. We do
>>     this for IDs of individuals rather than domains, but the paper
>>     develops ways to calibrate trust, answering questions such as –
>>     is a 10 year-old Facebook ID more trustworthy than a 15 year old
>>     Gmail ID, for example):
>>
>>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nr-swww-16/
>>
>
> Very nice.  I'd love to get into signals about individuals, but we it 
> looked like websites would be a little simpler, and we wanted to start 
> in the simplest possible place.  Hopefully we can get into such things 
> fairly soon.
>
>>  *
>>
>>
>> I will join the Zoom at 7pm GMT, and can add any further details that 
>> may be interesting to the group. Looking forward.
>>
>
> Great, looking forward to meeting you.  This meeting will be mostly 
> about wrapping up this little sprint, but then hopefully we can expand 
> a bit for the next phase.
>
>      -- Sandro
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> nishanth
>>
>> *From: *Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
>> *Date: *Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 15:51
>> *To: *Credible Web CG <public-credibility@w3.org>
>> *Subject: *journalism award signals
>> *Resent from: *<public-credibility@w3.org>
>> *Resent date: *Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 15:51
>>
>> I did a bit more work on the Journalism Awards, framing it as a 
>> general signal and one more specific signals.
>>
>> I put them into the "reviewed signals" draft, marked as "pending".
>>
>> Here's a dated version of that draft: 
>> https://credweb.org/reviewed-signals-20200219/ 
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcredweb.org%2Freviewed-signals-20200219%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cnishanth.sastry%40kcl.ac.uk%7C1c1f34f786234483d96c08d7b5539380%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=Vf7GBSfAxU5%2BtP8oOqK1vMf0Oxw2DgDXLWtBoQ8f4k0%3D&reserved=0>  
>> (The undated version presumably wont show them as pending after 
>> today, which could confuse someone reading this later.)
>>
>> Meeting in about 3 hours, as usual. Agenda 
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1-KcB121I6D6J2ZdQET-qatqCaqv3ttlZkfhgyWEk7nM%2Fedit&data=01%7C01%7Cnishanth.sastry%40kcl.ac.uk%7C1c1f34f786234483d96c08d7b5539380%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=fu%2FG4cV3ziND%2BcDFacnZsRAKJLiVYuYwRF9c9Ik%2FSFM%3D&reserved=0>.
>>
>>        -- Sandro
>>
>>
>
-- 
Annette Greiner (she)
NERSC Data and Analytics Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:59:44 UTC