Figures out yesterday (May 1, 2019) show that 55% of Freedom of Information requests refused by central government bodies in 2018 were rejected under Section 12, or cost limits. Given that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…