Check out the Guardian’s Datablog, and while you are at it, read/watch the Guardian’s Simon Rogers interview with Jonathan Stray of Nieman Journalism Labs on the rise of data journalism and the tools they use.
Tag Archives: journalism
Is this a ‘Have you no sense of decency momment?’
The Atlantic: James Fallows: “On Today’s Hot Media Stories: Sherrod, “Journolist”.
The only way it would be so is if we collectively stop watching, stop clicking, and stop linking to such witch hunts, such hatred, served in pursuit of traffic and ratings.
And you would think that by now, in our media-savvy land, we’d instinctively know that soundbites out of context lead to misunderstanding.
For a world of context from all sides, check out the Memeorandum thread.
Yesterday was a big one for newspaper companies
The Journal Register Company, which is running a forward thinking project focusing on newspaper production, reached an important landmark yesterday, and published their newspapers using open source tools.
Read about it from Jeff Jarvis and on the Journal Register’s blog about the project they have appropriately titled, “The Ben Franklin Project”. The work that The Journal Register Company is putting into this will provide a template for others to build upon.
More from Steve Earley and John Paton.
ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas
You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab.
Check out some sample reports:
ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat
Related:
A shocking source of TV news coverage of the oil leak?
G4 and Kevin Pereira: “BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife”.
G4, the games channel. Yes, the games channel!
This makes sense in a world where the most informative pieces of national news journalism are coming from a music magazine and nightly comedy show doesn’t it?
hacks/hackers teaming up with Mozilla on a course
This sounds like a fantastic opportunity for programmers who want to become familiar with journalism, and journalists to become familiar with programming.
Recent Journalist-Programmer reads
O’Reilly Radar: Mike Loukides: “What is Data Science?”
Media Shift: Marc Glaser: “Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming”
Rafe Colburn: “Why journalists should learn to program” – with a suggestion on what really to be digging into – and I agree.
Resource: Hacks/Hackers
Google News adding human editors to promote serendipity
Good move on Google’s part. Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks”
Mashable: “Google News and Why Human Editors Still Matter”
Previously: Techmeme: “Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work.”
Sean Blanda on Remixing the News
eMedia: Remix the News: “Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora”: “there is no service that adequately customizes content to my tastes based on previous reading”
A good read with some important ideas. The only thing close I can think of is Google Reader’s recommendations which are based upon my clicking activity in Google Reader.
One of the commenters in Sean’s post added some thoughts about ‘intelligent serendipity’. ‘Intelligent Serendipity’ will be all important if we intend to help people get the news they need to hear, but might not be aware of it.
Some links on ‘intelligent serendipity’:
Jeff Jarvis: “Serendipity is unexpected relevance”
Chis Anderson: “What would it take to build a true “serendipity-maker”?”
Mathew Ingram: “In defence of newspapers and serendipity”
Inside Guardian.com: “The Random Guardian”
Somewhere in here is the news experience of the future. Helping people connect with what they are interested in, and helping them connect with what they would (should?) be interested in, but just aren’t aware of it yet. Isn’t that the essence of ‘news’?
Open Source news and knowledge aggregation projects that have caught my eye recently
A little further down the stack: