ProPublica, the nonprofit journalism outlet, has not only used this new data to report on colleges flush with cash that are saddling poor students with debt -- it's also created "Debt by Degrees," an online tool that enables visitors to see how much federal loan debt students from low-income families accumulate at different colleges.
Through most of the history of journalism, news outlets have always claimed to be more fair, more accurate than the other guy.
You'll discover that thousands - yes, thousands - of journalists at all levels of our trade in newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV channels and a wide variety of online outlets have journalism degrees.
Breitbart was essentially forced to say: "Everyone in the media lies, including us", while conservative journalism-ish outlets had to make the argument that everyone was lying but them.
The mainstream media came under fire today as attendees at a major journalism conference concluded that media outlets have dropped the ball in their scant coverage of the reality TV series Jon and Kate Plus Eight.
"Vanguardia represented a breath of air in an environment that was becoming more and more asphyxiating, where nearly the totality of media outlets have stopped doing investigative journalism," Mr. Calderón said.
"Not all media outlets have the resources to match the biggest organisations, but we hope for submissions from Africa and Asia where data journalism is still rarely discussed as a field of its own".
Should media outlets have done more?
Print outlets have been syndicating articles for almost as long as they've existed, while specialist magazines such as the Week emerged in the mid 1990s to collate and distribute journalism.
The sparely decorated outlets have bargains aplenty.
