Investigative reporter Stuart Watson of WCNC in Charlotte, N.C. did something unusual last week: He reported on his own station’s advertising. Watson reports on politics and on public records, among other things. So he naturally took an interest in a proposal to require that public disclosure files once relegated to filing cabinets be put online [...]
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I study and write about media and technology policy and the information needs of communities.
I'm passionate about the power of networked information to improve our democracy.
I work as an Associate in Research at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
I also contribute to the Media Policy Initiative of the New America Foundation as a part-time research fellow. MPINAF published my case study of the Triangle area's information ecology.
Triangle NC Case Study Version 2.0
All views expressed on this personal website are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my my employer, my colleagues, or any organizations with which I work.