OJR: The Online Journalism Review

Robert Niles

Robert Niles: July 2007 archive

A journalist's guide to crowdsourcing

July 31, 2007

OJR's editor answers basic questions about how news organizations can improve investigative reports by using the Internet to gather information from their readers.

Hits, page views and other garbage we pass off as audience metrics

July 13, 2007

Commentary: Nielsen/NetRatings took a step in the right direction this week. But we've got a long way to go as an industry to tell an accurate story about who's reading our websites.