A Great Big List of FOI Ideas
Is one of your journalism resolutions this year to put in more Freedom of Information requests but not really sure where to start? David Higgerson’s blog has a FOI Friday feature, collecting…
Journo Resolutions 2012
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…
Why data journalism will go mainstream
Reading through the Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday before last and there was an article about the inquiry into Stafford Hospital and the failings there. Interestingly at the end of the…
The Great Thing about Data Journalism
When it works well it works really well. This is a sort of companion piece to me complaining about how data journalism takes forever (ok, slight exaggeration). Sometimes its very quick and…
The Problem with Data Journalism…Time
As in not enough of it. Big datasets take time to go through and understand and find the stories in. Not easy when you have to write a lead on…