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 ArticleOur favourite #AdviceForYoungJournalists
If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably noticed the trending hashtag #AdviceForYoungJournalists, which was sparked off by a bitingly cynical blog post from financial journalist The post Our...
View ArticleBilly Ehrenberg on data journalism’s future and the skills you need
Billy Ehrenberg, ex-Interhacktive and data journalist, has spent the last year working on new data-based projects with City A.M.’s expanding online team. The post Billy Ehrenberg on data journalism’s...
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...
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