finally, we have john davidow, executive editor of new media in boston. and john is the 2010 recipient of the knight news challenge grant to do this very program, and so we are going to start with john who will give us an outline of what they've done there in quincy, and then we'll hear from our other panelists and open it to discussion. john? >> thank you. that was very interesting about richard griffiths. i think the best thing to do is rather showed until. so let me just see if we are up alive right now. and, indeed, what is coming out of there. and naturally we are flat line right now. [laughter] but like every good news producer i have a backup. [laughter] so let me get that out. and this is from our archive from august 2. you will notice a very familiar face on the bench. and we can always come back and check it later. but these are guys. oakley the internet stream will be bad enough. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> so you get the idea. and i don't how much i want exposure to a. you've all seen court action, but that is essentially what open c

so for example, if john davidow was wrong accused of acts, and john davidow applies for a job as a "national journal" and the google john davidow and it turns out that he was accused of that, maybe i wouldn't get that job. and so, it hasn't been fully resolved. so it's an incredibly blunt instrument right now. there is no tagging that visually effective, no names associated with the case. and that's, as we go forward, one of the things that we're going to be working on. and i reference it is earlier, sort of the data for data's sake. you can sort of get what judge coven is talking about these issue of bail, issues of society, and what he didn't include was how much the court is almost the social service agency of last resort. which the public can certainly get an appreciation of what's going on. but for me. coverage point of view, people are -- you have the ap datebook, and they know what's going to be heard that day so they'll put it on. and that's what the globe did. there was a case that happened a week ago. they knew it was coming up that day. they moderate it that way. so it's a really

finally we have the john and david -- john davidow. he is the 2010 recipient of the news challenge grant to do this very program. we're going to start with john who will give us an outline of what they have done in quincy and then we will hear from our panelists and open it up to discussion. >> thank you her. the best thing to do is show rather than tell. let me see if we are live right now. naturally, we are offline right now. [laughter] but i have a backup. let me get that up. this is from our archive from august 2. you'll notice say familiar face on the bench. we can always come back and check it later. these are our archives. hopefully the internet stream will be fast enough. [inaudible] [inaudible] so you get the idea. i don't know how much i want to expose you to it. you have all seen court action. that is what open court does every day whenever the court is in session whenever there is a judge on the bench. can you hear me in the back of the room? ok. as chris was talking about, the reason for open court was exactly that, to addr