Discussion in the newsgroup about journalists using sensors. 

Suggestions: 

* A course for journalists looking to employ DIY data collection -- aerial photography or one of our other tools?
* Get list of the top 10 most important measurements that journalists would be interested in having

Places to contact:

* Knight Foundation - does work on innovative tools for journalism
* [Investigative Reporters and Editors] (www.ire.org) - do training on how journalists can use data to produce better stories
* [Association of Independents in Radio] (www.airmedia.org)
* Jay Allison at transom.org in Cape Cod, MA
* Alex Goldmark at WNYC
* JLab at American University
* MIT's Center for Civic Media
* Columbia jSchool
* Pro Publica
* [Google Student Journalism Fellowship] (http://bit.ly/1iEYaj6)

Example articles:

* [E Coli testing in water tanks, NY Times 2014-01-27](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/inside-citys-water-tanks-layers-of-neglect.html)
*[Lead testing in urban soils, USA Today](usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-19/smelting-lead-contamination-government-failure/54399578/1)

Existing work: 
* InfoAmazonia's Geojournalism Handbook
* [Internews Innovation Lab](http://innovation.internews.org/pilots/environmental-sensor-journalism-start) - distributing sensors to journalists in developing countries
* [Global Sensor Web](http://www.globalsensorweb.org/) - API to handle geotagged data set for analysis, querying, and visualizations
* [good overview of the testing issue] (http://sanitationupdates.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/microbiology2020.pdf)