Using FOI as a journalist
I make a lot of FOI requests (I counted about 80 in a year), and yes, some of them are just fishing expeditions to get stories (look, it has to…
I make a lot of FOI requests (I counted about 80 in a year), and yes, some of them are just fishing expeditions to get stories (look, it has to…
As it’s the third day of the New Year, now’s as good a time as any for some resolutions for the new year. Learn Last year, I learnt a lot…
Data Journalism Montreal Gazette’s Data Blog Data journalism: Resources to help reporters get started collecting and analyzing data Helsingin Sanomat provides guidelines to journalists on use of open data Data Driven…
Firstly, I’ve been a bit quiet recently due to a very messy house move (see Twitter for much whinging) and a few weeks without home internet (see Twitter for yet more whinging).…
The campaign for more open data in Wales starts…well here and now unless someone else is already on it…anybody? Anyway, I was reading a blog post about how a campaign was…
It certainly didn’t when it came to the £32 bread. That was actually 11 loaves and cost £2.82. The lesson from this is if it sound ridiculous, it probably is…
So on Thursday, the UK Government announced plans to release more data on schools, hospitals, crime and transport (then the closure of the News of the World was announced, which…