Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 14:22
Matt Waite on the trouble with finding budding journalist-developers: “I think the problem with finding these students starts with reward structures. Students are told from even before they walk on campus that being a journalist means Being a Good Writ…
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…
Guardian: Riot theory is relative
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 14:52
Philip Meyer: “After personal computers with user-friendly software became common, using a computer wasn’t such a big deal. But the term CAR, for computer-assisted reporting, is still used today to describe what I prefer to think of as the application …
Financial Times: Statistics chief’s warning over misuse of figures
Friday, 9 December 2011, 10:51
“Ministers, officials and journalists need to be on their guard when misusing statistics after [Andrew Dilnot,] the new chairman of the UK Statistics Authority warned he would name and shame offenders. … Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, he cited a calcula…
The Verge: Drone Journalism Lab takes reporting to the sky
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 11:44
“The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications is starting a lab to educate students on what it sees as one of the new frontiers for newsgathering and reporting: drone journalism. The lab will look at the ethical, l…
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…
The Other Sociologist: “69 Billion Friendships” on Facebook – How Sociology Can Make This Meaningful
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 17:23
“Facebook’s research tells us about the links between a large sub-group of humanity – but it doesn’t say anything about what these connections mean.”
Facebook: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 17:41
“We recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.”
currybetdotnet: “Hacking the rendition flights” – Stephen Grey at Hacks/Hackers London
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 11:49
“[The] problem wasn’t so much collecting the data in order to analyse it, but getting the data cleaned up and into a format that made it ready to be analysed. He also made the point that you should pick your story and then get the data to support it,…
New York Times: Drone Journalism Arrives
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 11:01
“[A] Polish firm called RoboKopter scored something of a coup last week when it demonstrated that its miniature flying drone was capable of recording spectacular aerial views of a chaotic protest in Warsaw. … [But it] seems worth noting that even tho…
NYTimes.com: Romenesko Taken to Woodshed for, um, Not Much. And Then Resigns.
Friday, 11 November 2011, 15:43
David Carr: “Out in the civilian world, [Romenesko's] departure is, um, less than seismic. But to those of us who read and followed him, it seemed like an ill-advised way to end a run that was remarkable in all aspects: He was a proto-blogger, helping …
Out-Law: Expert says ‘right to be forgotten’ could cause problems for publishers
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:29
“Media law expert Kim Walker of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the ‘right to be forgotten’ would have a major effect in relation to news archives. He said that there would be great difficulty in determining what stories are …
The Awl: The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter’s "Romenesko+"
Friday, 11 November 2011, 11:09
Choire Sicha: “Romenesko’s entire practice was about giving credit, in ways that virtually no other blog has been, a position that “Romenesko+” does not embrace as strongly. Poynter has worked systematically to erode a fairly noble, not particularly mo…
