The MA in Online Journalism which I established at Birmingham City University in 2009 is now available via distance learning. The MA in Online Journalism by distance learning is primarily aimed at pe...
The Guardian’s Open Door column today describes the changes to the subeditor’s role in a multiplatform age in some detail: “A subeditor preparing an article for our website will, am...
d3.js crossed my path a couple of times yesterday: firstly, in the form of an enquiry about whether I’d be interested in writing a book on d3.js (I’m not sure I’m qualified: as I re...
One of the great things about aggregating local spending data from different councils in the same place – such as on OpenlyLocal – is that you can start to explore structural relations in...
In a guest post Alexandra Stark, Swiss journalist and Head of Studies at MAZ – the Swiss School of Journalism, argues that it’s time for journalists to take action on business models for supporting j...
In a guest post for OJB, cross-posted from her blog, Franzi Baehrle reviews a new German TV show which operates across broadcast, web and mobile. There’s a big experiment going on in German tel...
Consider these two unrelated events: A bill is proposed to record every contact (and possibly search) made by every UK citizen, to be available to law enforcement agencies and stored by communication...
As part of the ongoing series of questions answered in public, here are another bunch: 1) What inspired you to become a blogger? Have you ever found it difficult to keep up regular posts/ stay dedica...
Online multimedia production has for a few years now come with the guidance to ‘chunk’ content: instead of producing linear content, as you would for a space in a linear broadcast schedul...
With local elections looming this is a great 20-30 minute project for any journalist wanting to create an interactive Google map of council ward boundaries. For this you will need: A Google account w...
Image by gaelx Whether you need an image for your blog post, a soundtrack to your video or that YouTube clip for your documentary, if you’re dealing with multimedia it’s likely you’...
One of the most frequently encountered ways of sharing small datasets is in the form of Excel spreadsheet (.xls) files, notwithstanding all that can be said In Praise of CSV;-) The natural applicatio...
Some posts I get a little bit twitchy about writing. Accessing and Visualising Sentencing Data for Local Courts was one, and this is another: exploring practice level prescription data (get the data)...
I’ve contributed to a “free, open-source book that aims to help journalists to use data to improve the news” – and it will be has now been published online tomorrow (Saturday ...
“Don’t work for free,” they were saying at the So You Want To Be A Journalist conference yesterday. “It’s fear, not freedom, that drives creators to succumb,” argu...
(Punchy title, eh?!) If you’re a researcher interested in local government initiatives or service provision across the UK on a particular theme, such as air quality, or you’re looking to ...
Following my previous posts on the network journalist and community manager roles as part of an investigation team, this post expands on the first steps a student journalist can take in filling the d...
The BBC College of Journalism asked me to revisit my Model for the 21st Century Newsroom 4 years on. You can now read the first part of the results on their blog - with further substantial parts to f...
Image from MHP The Ident Zone - click to see in context The BBC’s social media lead for the English Regions Robin Morley has invited requests from “reputable hyperlocal websites” wh...
Data is so central to the decision-making that shapes our countries, jobs and even personal lives that an increasing amount of data journalism involves scrutinising the problems with the very data it...
Is it really only a couple years since the latest, widely quoted, iteration of the idea that “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold...
In a guest post for OJB, cross-posted from Putney Debater, Michael Chanan explores his experiences of video blogging for the New Statesman and how it differs from conventional documentary. Being writ...
A quick sketch, prompted by Tesco Graph Hunting on OpenCorporates of how some of Tesco’s various corporate holdings are related based on director appointments and terminations: The recipe is as...
Illustration by Leonard Leslie Brooke, from Wikimedia Commons Cross-posted from XCity Magazine The future of journalism, according to The Guardian’s ’3 Little Pigs’ film, is “...
Having got to grips with adding a basic sortable table view to a Scraperwiki view using the Google Chart Tools (Exporting and Displaying Scraperwiki Datasets Using the Google Visualisation API), I th...
Late last year I was asked to put together some presentations giving advice on verifying information, finding people and stories online, ethics, and news values. These were translated by Anas Qtiesh ...
In Visualising Networks in Gephi via a Scraperwiki Exported GEXF File I gave an example of how we can publish arbitrary serialised output file formats from Scraperwiki using the GEXF XML file format ...
How do you visualise data scraped from the web using Scraperwiki as a network using a graph visualisation tool such as Gephi? One way is to import the a two-dimensional data table (i.e. a CSV file) e...
Cross-posted from Help Me Investigate The Stirrer was an independent news website in Birmingham that investigated a number of local issues in collaboration with local people. One investigation in par...
Mollie Makes magazine - image from Specialist Media Show Interesting strategy by Future’s Mollie Makes magazine, which mirrors the way I teach online journalism (community first, then content, ...
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