Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC responds to CSG industry complaint – Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:07
“The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) lodged an official complaint about the ABC’s website, Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers. Following is the ABC’s public response to that complaint. …”
Sydney Morning Herald: New form of journalism must adhere to old rules
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 16:27
Pollster Mark Textor: “Too often, data journalists suddenly pretend to be experts. But a journalist is a not a mathematician or statistician. With data journalism that is exactly what they pretend to be. They imagine they are something way beyond the p…
Europa Press Releases: Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:04
“The [European Commission's Open Data Strategy for Europe is] to lift performance EU-wide is three-fold: firstly the Commission will lead by example, opening its vaults of information to the public for free through a new data portal. Secondly, a level …
dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:19
Jens Finnäs: “Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this m…
Guardian Government Computing: Scottish Boundary Commission to publish shapefiles of constituency boundaries
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:15
"The Boundary Commission for Scotland (BCS) has said it will publish shapefiles of its initial proposals for constituencies after the Boundary Commission for England (BCE) was criticised for not doing so."
ESPN: Baseball in Europe is about to take off
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 18:41
"With all the talk of emerging markets like China, India and Brazil as successors to Latin America and the Pacific Rim as Major League Baseball's next breeding ground, Europe is overlooked. However, the Regensburg academy, while a pioneer, is…
The Drum: Newsquest (Herald & Evening Times) to introduce online subscription model
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:41
"Newsquest (Herald & Times) will take a ‘quality over quantity’ approach as it moves away from targeting unique users and build on a returning online audience. … a subscription platform is expected to be introduced across online content …
Bloomberg: Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers
Monday, 9 May 2011, 19:53
"The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that forced Google to remove links and snippets of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers from Google.com and Google.be."
Nieman Reports: Investigating Farm Subsidies on a Global Stage
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 07:10
Nils Mulvad: "The collaborative effort among journalists to make the E.U.’s farm subsidies transparent is a striking example of how developing networks and providing support for reporters can result in important stories being told."
UBC Graduate School of Journalism: Social media changing how people get the news
Sunday, 1 May 2011, 21:57
"A new study has found that nearly 60 per cent of Canadians – the equivalent of more than 15 million people – regularly visit social networking websites, with the majority of users saying social media exposes them to a broader range of news and in…
Deutsche Welle: EU to launch tender for open data portal
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 09:08
"In the coming weeks, the EU will launch a tender for tech companies and freelance programmers to create an EU-wide online portal to allow access to government information and services. … the project's aim is to change how European citizens…
BBC News: Crowd-sourcing aids Japan crisis
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:09
"The RDTN.org website allows people to submit their own radiation readings and maps them alongside official data."
maptd: Worldwide map of nuclear power stations and earthquake zones
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:31
Good global map of nuclear power stations vs seismic activity.
New York Times: China Tracks Foreign Journalists, Unnerved by Mideast Tumult
Monday, 7 March 2011, 11:49
"On Sunday, about a dozen European and Japanese journalists in Shanghai were herded into an underground bunkerlike room and kept for two hours after they sought to monitor the response to calls on an anonymous Internet site for Chinese citizens to…
