Is 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 ArticleMy Excel tips for journalists
I created this (blog?) for myself so I can keep on top of Excel. I am going to add to it throughout The post My Excel tips for journalists appeared first on Interhacktives.
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!
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
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