12 items tagged “journalism”
Journalism Warning Labels. These are absolutely fantastic. “I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.”
14th August 2010, 11:16 am
If journalism is the first draft of history, live blogging is the first draft of journalism.
— Andrew Sparrow
10th May 2010, 4:28 pm
Live blogging the general election. The Guardian’s ongoing live blogs covering the UK election have been the best way of following events that I’ve seen (yes, better than Twitter). Live-blog author Andrew Sparrow explains his approach.
10th May 2010, 4:27 pm
Most journalists have grown up with a fortress mindset. They have lived and worked in proud institutions with thick walls. Their daily knightly task has been simple: to battle journalists from other fortresses. But the fortresses are crumbling and courtly jousts with fellow journalists are no longer impressing the crowds.
— Peter Horrocks
20th July 2009, 5:20 pm
#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation. Journalism.co.uk report on the first instance of a Guardian story that was driven by an external developer’s work with data originally released on our Datablog.
9th April 2009, 10:57 am
A few notes on the Guardian Open Platform
This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open. [... 839 words]
Learning to Think Like A Programmer. Outstanding advice aimed mainly at journalists, but important to anyone who collects information for a living and might want it to be automatically processed at some point in the future.
22nd January 2009, 6:06 pm
The quality of (US) journalism. Just wow.
2nd August 2008, 8:27 am
Google apps for your newsroom. How the LJ World team use online tools like Google Spreadsheet, Swivel, ManyEyes and Google MyMaps to collaborate with the newsroom and build data-heavy applications even faster.
7th January 2008, 9:24 pm
journa-list.com. Fantastic new site that indexes UK news stories by the person who wrote them. Being able to track a journalist’s output like this makes it much easier to figure out their personal biases over time.
11th October 2007, 4:04 pm
Making the “24-hour newsroom” work (via) More on the Lawrence Journal-World, this time from the point of view of the reporters in the newsroom.
16th June 2007, 12:27 am
10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head (via) A great list, with a positive conclusion.
9th June 2007, 5:36 pm