South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com: Computer-Assisted Reporting Specialist
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:11
Why don't we ever see jobs ads like this one in the UK? "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is seeking an aggressive, skilled Computer-Assisted Reporting Specialist … [who] will work as part of a CAR team on database acquisition and analysis, mapping, training of newsroom staff and development of intranet Web pages for use by reporters."
Monday, 14 April 2008, 15:31
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Evening Standard maps at London boroughs level. Drill-down to street-level data is available — by downloading a PDF. A missed opportunity to do something interesting with data.
Sunday, 27 January 2008, 22:43
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"Unlike most newspaper products, [Everyblock] seems to be designed to let the consumer make the judgment of what’s news."
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 14:47
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University of Florida journalism student Megan Taylor isn’t getting much formal training in computer-assisted reporting or databases - so she’s teaching herself.
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 14:47
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University of Florida journalism student Megan Taylor isn’t getting much formal training in computer-assisted reporting or databases - so she’s teaching herself.
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 11:04
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Slate also reported on the Mitchell report into doping in baseball using social network analysis to create an interactive graph showing links between the accused players.
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 11:01
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The New York Times used a network graph to illustrate how the use of steroids spread in professional baseball.
Monday, 17 December 2007, 00:21
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"In what is believed to be the first statistical analysis of player performance for those named in the 409-page report, the Journal Sentinel … found …"
Monday, 10 September 2007, 11:34
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"Wikileaks has … a leak of what it claims is a list of US Military Equipment in Afghanistan. Wikileaks applies a lot of Computer Assisted Reporting techniques to analysing the data. Here is how they did it…"
Andrew Keen on journalism: audio highlights
Friday, 7 September 2007, 13:16
There were some very interesting exchanges in last night’s Frontline Club discussion between Web 2.0 critic Andrew Keen and BBC resident new media evangelist and director of global news Richard Sambrook.
Keen brimmed with contempt for those he called the “digital utopians”. Much of his argument seems to be motivated by personal dislike for a handful [...]
Friday, 24 August 2007, 13:03
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"There’s no shortage of gadgets or software for computer-assisted reporting, but making sense of it all is another matter. If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed, we recommend swinging by the Reporters’ Cookbook."
Friday, 10 August 2007, 16:16
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David Lord’s Bridge Map mashup displays 700,000 bridges by combining the National Bridge Inventory database found on the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration website with Google Maps.
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 10:17
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Danny Sanchez: "Smashing Magazine has produced an excellent list of some of the best data visualization examples on the Web today … Examine each of these visualizations closely because you’re looking at the first step in the future of your news site
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 09:16
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"It seems like there is an uncommonly high number of computer-assisted job openings at newspapers these days. (And by “uncommonly high” I mean “more than one.” It is a relatively small field, after all.)"
