SchoolBook: An Introduction to SchoolBook’s Data

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"The goal: to curate the thousands of public records available about schools in New York City, simplify and standardize their contents, and make it all as easy as possible to understand and compare school to school. ... As you can see on any school page, or when you use our Search + Compare tool, we’ve translated many data points into a 1 to 9 scale, and further labeled 1, 2 and 3 as 'below average;' 4, 5 and 6 as 'average' and 7, 8 and 9 as 'above average'"

Minstry of Justice: Broadcasting in court to be allowed for first time and increased transparency of local court performance

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"[Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke] announced that an unprecedented level of information about the performance of courts will be published in future to allow everyone to see how their local courts are working. ... In addition to allowing broadcasting, Mr Clarke announced that an unprecedented level of information about the performance of courts will be published in future to allow everyone to see how their local courts are working."

Online Journalism Blog: Gathering data: a flow chart for data journalists

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"[A flow chart that] ... aims to help those doing data journalism identify how best to get hold of and deal with data by asking a series of questions about the information you want to compile and making suggestions on ways both to get hold of it and tools to then get it into a state which makes it easier to ask questions."

Guardian: Reading the Riots study to examine causes and effects of August unrest

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"Reading the Riots is modelled on an acclaimed survey conducted in the aftermath of the Detroit riots in 1967. The findings of that study, the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Detroit Free Press newspaper and Michigan's Institute for Social Research, challenged prevailing assumptions about the cause of the unrest. Prof Phil Meyer, who co-ordinated the Detroit study more than four decades ago, will advise the research into the English riots."

Press Gazette: Sky News Supreme Court feed ‘attracts 90,000 a day’

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"Sky News’ live video stream from the Supreme Court attracts an average 90,000 visitors a day, according to the channel’s head of news John Ryley. The figure was cited in an open letter sent by Ryley to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in which he renewed calls for cameras to be allowed in courts. ... Sky News launched its live video feed from the Supreme Court in May."

estatesgazette.com: Capita Symonds Augmented Reality

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"Estates Gazette and Capita Symonds have joined forces to produce the first-ever augmented reality edition of Estates Gazette. The Capita Symonds advertisements in the print edition on 3 September 2011 can be viewed using the CS AR App downloaded to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2."

Ragan.com: Study: LinkedIn top social media site for journalists

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"While more journalists are on LinkedIn than any other social network, they have increased their presence on other networks, too. The [Arketi Group] survey found that 85 percent of journalists are on Facebook and 84 percent use Twitter. Only 55 percent of journalists used Facebook in 2009, and 24 percent were on Twitter."