Welcome to the MediaBugs blog! This is where we’ll be offering updates on the MediaBugs project, a winner of the 2009 round of the Knight News Challenge.
MediaBugs will be a place on the Web where people can bring errors and problems they’ve found in media coverage in their community, and try to get them fixed. We aim to provide a neutral ground where journalists and the public can work together to improve news coverage. Our pilot project is in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re starting work on it now and expect to have a test version of the site up this coming winter.
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Nice idea. It may be worthwhile to see how the software industry files bugs. It is a fascinating structure to development.
I went to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines
“Effective bug reports are the most likely to be fixed. These guidelines explain how to write such reports.
* Be precise
* Be clear – explain it so others can reproduce the bug
* One bug per report
* No bug is too trivial to report – small bugs may hide big bugs
* Clearly separate fact from speculation”
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It is also interesting to hear that bugs are marked as either open, closed or “will not fix”.
I like this idea. It will be interesting to see how news media regard this effort.