Open government: getting beyond impenetrable data files
Simply making data available online isn’t enough – it needs to be created with the end user in mind Mathematician Blaise Pascal famously closed a long letter by apologising that he hadn’t had time to...
View ArticleHyperlocal. open data. journalism conference: If you’ll come, I’ll build it.
Update: I’ve decided on dates. 6th and 7th of November 2015 in Preston. If you’re interested you can tell me what you’d like to see through a quick survey. As part of my current research activity into...
View Article#HLDJ Conference 6th and 7th November 2015
This post was created automatically from a feed, and was originally published at: http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/22/hldj-conference-6th-and-7th-november-2015/ This isn’t meant to be a conference...
View ArticleUK Crime Data: Feeling is Believing
Latest crime data shows that the UK is getting significantly more ‘peaceful’. Last month, the Institute for Economics and Peace published the UK Peace Index, revealing UK crime figures have fallen the...
View ArticleTwelve Tips for Getting Started With Data Journalism
Editor’s note: Nils Mulvad, co-founder and board member of GIJN, and Helena Bengtsson, editor for the Data Projects Team at The Guardian, share twelve tips on how to use data for stories. These are...
View ArticleTwelve Lessons for Creating International, Data-Driven News Collaborations
A new paper by William E. Buzenberg, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and former Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, explores the need for and impact of international...
View ArticleData journalism in the Philippines: changing the open data landscape
Transparency, accountability and open data in the Philippines have just become more palpable to citizens and journalists alike. Open Knowledge/School of Data joined forces with the World Bank and the...
View ArticleHow open is Data Journalism?
Where does data journalism get its data? In a brown envelope or mysterious memory stick From freedom of information requests From free (open) government data sources Some will collect their own via the...
View Article15 online communities for journalists you should know about
From freelancing to mobile journalism and open data, here’s our pick of the best media chat groups across social media and the web
View ArticleInflation, poor supply, great demand – a summary of Argentina’s open data
Last month our project progressed and move to Israel. We visited the land of the milk and honey in mid May, and we are super excited about what we found. However, we still have some catch up to do...
View ArticleDatafication and empowerment: How the open data movement re-articulates...
This article shows how activists in the open data movement re-articulate notions of democracy, participation, and journalism by applying practices and values from open source culture to the creation...
View ArticleVoyager wants to help journalists find and illustrate data stories
The free, open source tool will have a recommendation system to help users visualise and better understand data
View ArticleWhy journalists and technologists must collaborate
The launch of the Kenya Open Data Initiative in July 2011 led to the release of hundreds of data sets which, for a few discerning journalists and editors, opened up a new way of discovering, reporting...
View ArticleGlobal warming-related heat wave roasts Europe while death toll rises from...
Young boys cool off in a weir on the Berounka river close to a village of Dobrichovice, Czech Republic, Thursday, August 6, 2015. Image: Petr David Josek/Associated Press By Andrew Freedman2015-08-12...
View ArticleCode for Africa gets $4.7m boost from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
Data journalism and civic technology organisation Code for Africa has received a US$4.7-million investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. According to a blog post written by Code for...
View ArticleSaludos – health and open data in Uruguay and Argentina
In order to provide health services to citizens the public health sector is required to collect rich and varied data pertaining to all aspects of the sector – everything from location of pharmacies, to...
View ArticleA New Kind of Media Using Government Data
Eric Newburger at the Department of Commerce: “MSNBC has published a data-heavy story collection that takes advantage of the internet’s power to communicate not only faster, but in different and...
View ArticleWant to create a more digital newsroom? Find your inner startup
On a gray day in the fall of 2013, a dozen department heads of the Dutch media company NRC huddled together in a room in Amsterdam. (Full disclosure: I was one of them.) Paintings of bygone editors of...
View ArticleIs Structured Journalism Smarter Journalism?
As a foreign correspondent for a large news agency, I know how important it is to improve the flow of meaningful news and information to clients’ newsrooms. That task is increasingly challenging as...
View ArticleCode4Good: Using ICTs for social good in Sri Lanka
Code4Good, Sri Lanka’s first social good hackathon kicked off today, an initiative of Internews Network implemented in partnership with International Alert, and with the support of SLASSCOM, Facebook...
View ArticleOn data’s role in investigative reporting: “It’s all about the evidence”
Data Journalism Investigative Reporting Writing and Editing Award-winning data journalist David Donald shares insights on how journalists can use data and numbers to augment their interviewing, writing...
View ArticleICFJ Knight roundup: Fellows discuss African open data revolution in Tanzania
Journalism Education Knight International Media Innovators Digital Journalism Fellows talk civic tech and open data in Africa, mapping media organizations in South America, big news for a recent fellow...
View ArticleWhy are the media not part of the open data conversation?
Knight International Media Innovators Data Journalism ICFJ Knight Fellow Stephen Abbott Pugh explores why the media are absent from the world of open data. In early September, hundreds of open data...
View ArticleDatafication and empowerment: How the open data movement re-articulates...
Stefan Baack at Big Data and Society: “This article shows how activists in the open data movement re-articulate notions of democracy, participation, and journalism by applying practices and values from...
View ArticleOpen Data: Six Stories About Impact in the UK
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View ArticleFrom data crunching to storytelling: Lessons from six months of Urbs.London
Comments Credit: By Justgrimes on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Over the past six months, journalist Gary Rogers and media strategist Alan Renwick have run the experimental website Urbs.London, a news...
View ArticleDoes Open Data Need Journalism?
Paper by Jonathan Stoneman at Reuters Institute for Journalism: “The Open Data movement really came into being when President Obama issued his first policy paper, on his first day in office in January...
View ArticleFifty Years of Journalism and Data: A Brief History
It started with trying to predict the outcome of a US presidential election. More than six decades later, computer-assisted reporting is at the core of investigative reporting globally. Many...
View ArticleWhy governments think that freedom of information is for nincompoops
stable Politicians go off being open quite easily. Tony Blair went from being a champion of transparency in 1997 to calling himself a “nincompoop” for passing a Freedom of Information Act in 2010....
View ArticleBuilding great data tools is not enough
Journalism Education Knight International Media Innovators Measuring Impact Data Journalism ICFJ Knight Fellow Raymond Joseph highlights the importance of outreach and training to introduce new data...
View ArticleFour lessons from Banda Aceh’s open data experiment
A guide to starting an open data practice. The post Four lessons from Banda Aceh’s open data experiment appeared first on GovInsider. Report preview added by Open Data Aha! [gview...
View ArticleHeads up for the first data journalism agency in Macedonia!
Developer Baze Petrushev showed participants how to use the Normal Distribution to find stories in data (Dona Dzambaska – CC-by-sa 3.0) Data journalism in Macedonia just got a lot stronger: a group of...
View Article20 resources for finding and using data in stories
Marianne Bouchart, communications director and Data Journalism Award Manager at the Global Editors Network, shares her list of tools and tips for sourcing data online
View ArticleNigerian Journalists Dig Deep Into Land and Property Rights
Steve Sapienza Reporters from Nigeria’s leading media outlets were among the 55 professional journalists and 48 students who attended a unique journalism workshop on “Covering Land and Property Rights”...
View ArticleAward-winning story shows impact, potential of data journalism tools
Knight International Media Innovators Specialized Reporting Data Journalism Data-driven multimedia story Living on the Edge wins the national onlien category of Vodacom awards. ICFJ Knight Fellow Ray...
View ArticleOpen data and journalism
The relationship between open data and journalism is a complex one. No one questions the desirability of good journalism and the value of open data but both are under threat. British print circulation…
View ArticleThe mainstreaming of data reporting and what it means for journalism schools
Data journalists and media lecturers debated the data skills needed in the newsroom, at the US book launch of Data Journalism: Inside the Global Future
View Article[Slides] Intro to Data Journalism
Slides from a class given at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication on 16th November 2015, covering examples of different stories, sources, tools and tips. Filed under:...
View ArticleInside a Pioneering Italian Data Journalism Collaboration
Editor’s Note: Confiscati Bene, released in mid-December in Europe, is a pioneering data journalism collaboration that digs into the $4 billion of goods in the EU confiscated from criminals by European...
View ArticleOpen Migration: Using Data To Understand The Refugee Crisis
The refugee crisis represents a challenge to journalism across Europe. It has forced newsrooms to question how they report such a complex phenomenon in a balanced way, without reinforcing easy...
View ArticleWhat skills do you need to become a data-driven storyteller? Join a week-long...
This post is written by Anastasia Valeeva, data journalist and member of Open Knowledge Russia, one of the local groups in the Open Knowledge Network. European Youth Press is organising a week-long...
View Article4 open data lessons from reporting the Panama Papers in Africa
In March this year we reported how our open data team in Africa has rolled up its sleeves to find out how open data can change lives for the better on the continent. One of the projects supported was...
View ArticleQuick Guide to Data Journalism
Originally published on https://www.datacamp.com/community/admin/blog/data-journalism-guide-tools Continue reading on »
View ArticleSix weeks, 77 stories, 84 cities and 350 people
How the Bureau Local team of four grew to a UK-wide collaborative network 65 people came together in five cities across the UK to dig into the database and find stories in their communities Three...
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