Two fundamentals that define good data journalism
Defining data journalism is a hostage to fortune but as I start teaching a data journalism module I’ve boiled it down to two things visible methodology and data.
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Is Data Journalism any more open?
What does the shortlist of the open data category of the Data journalism awards tell us about data journalism’s approach to open data.
Local votes for hyperlocal #DDJ
There’s a good deal of interest in my feeds in a BBC report showing how local voting figures shed new light on EU referendum.
Why open data needs to be "Citizen literate"
A “data literate” citizen isn’t someone who knows how to handle a spreadsheet — it’s someone who inherently understands the value of data in decision making.
The BBC, Local democracy, hyperlocal and journalism.
I spent the afternoon in Birmingham at the BBC finding out more about their
Local Democracy Reporters scheme
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-nma-partnership]. It’s a
project I’ve been keeping an eye on for a number of reasons.
The promise of 150 new jobs in
Making Instagram video with Powerpoint
Audio slideshows are something I’ve included in my practical teaching for a little while. The combination of images and well recorded audio is, for me, a compelling form of content and it can be an easy video win for non-broadcast shops.
Mapping Drone near misses in Google Earth*
My colleague Andrew Heaton from the Civic Drone Centre
[http://civicdronecentre.org/team/andrew-heaton/] set me off on a little
adventure with mapping tools when he showed me a spreadsheet of airprox reports
involving drones
[https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/Topical-issues-and-themes/Drones/].
In my head an airprox report describes what
Don’t postmortem journalism. It’s not dead. Fix it.
In the aftermath of the Trump win many in the media are looking inward to
understand what went wrong. But is it too soon to write off journalism as a
failed project?
In the very short time we’ve had to get used to the idea that Donald Trump will
Why social media isn't blogging.
I’m teaching first year journalism students at the moment and talking to them
about a professional online presence. A phrase that I’ve been using a lot is
blogging. The idea of a ‘blog’ and its value to an aspiring journalists is one
I’m really comfortable with but
Mapping street level crime in an area
A little while ago I was playing around with the API at data.police.uk looking
at a way to pull the data into a google spreadsheet
[http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/11/pulling-policing-data-into-google-sheets/]
(and some of the issues around the way policing areas are constructed)
Yesterday I found myself