Journalism and social media: professional platform or personal playground?
This afternoon, we talked to Sarah Marshall, Technology Editor at Journalism.co.uk, Adam Tinworth, journalist and consultant and
Month: February 2013
Hacks/Hackers London: Innovation in Storytelling
Interhacktives report live from the February Hacks/Hackers London meetup on all things digital storytelling…
A day in the life of the Telegraph’s Social Media Editor
Kate Day, social media editor at the Telegraph, talks her through her very busy day.
Interhacktives launch Community Journalism: Meet the Managers
Come one, come all, to the first Interhacktives meet-up, where we ask: How can
Technology isn’t a guarantee of journalistic success
Technology puts you in contact with people, but it doesn’t give you their attention. A reporter can
Can a Facebook ‘like’ Make You a Criminal?
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has been debating whether ‘liking’ a defamatory comment on
Inside the mind of a Deputy Social Media Editor
Matthew Keys, Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters in New York kindly responded to my Twitter request for a chat. Here he shares some musings on emerging social media tools, audience engagement and the ever-changing face of journalism.
Using Many Eyes to create data visualisations
Many Eyes is one of the better free online tools for making quick data visualisations – here is our guide to putting one together.
Meeting Up – a sitcom for the social media age. Episode One.
“Every great journey begins with a single step.” Anon. In years to come, a
Twitter’s real face
Looking like the sort of fake futuristic technology you’d see in an episode of 24, Tweetping, a stunning new visualisation from French designer Franck Ernewein, highlights the exact location of every tweet on the planet with a bright blue pixel. In real time.
Deaths from mass shootings vs deaths from homegrown terror plots- a look at the figures
It’s a simple visualisation, but I wanted to make sure I got it up as
The internet is becoming unsafe for women
There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently about the Internet as a “safe space”
Google Fusion tables – putting data together
I was lucky enough to spend two weeks at the GuardianDatablog over Christmas, where I got