Gerard Baker: 5 pillars of business journalism in the digital age
Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, spoke at City University about business journalism and the online publishing strategies they must take to survive…
Month: March 2014
The 2014 budget highlighted data journalism’s mobile device woes
The 2014 Budget saw some great data coverage, but it showed that one of data journalism’s biggest challenges lies in working well on mobile devices.
The News Hub: a bridge between social media and journalism?
Taking ideas from Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, The News Hub is taking a new approach to harnessing the power of the internet for journalism…
9 Design websites to bookmark if you love data
“If data journalism is about anything, it’s the flexibility to search for new ways of
“Have pride and joy in what you do”: Interview with Manuel lima, Design Lead at Codecademy
Manuel Lima is the Design Lead at Codecademy, an online interactive platform offering free coding
Interview with David Dubas-Fisher, Sports Data Journalist at Trinity Mirror
Are sports fans interested in data stories? Sophie Murray-Morris spoke to sports data journalist David Dubas-Fisher to find out…
Our data competition with Ampp3d has launched
From today, we are accepting entries for our competition to by published by Ampp3d: the Daily Mirror’s
Two hours of Interhacktivity: #hackshangout
Our tutorial on data journalism will start at 6pm today (Monday 24th March) – click here for
How to create infographics with Piktochart
Piktochart is a website that allows you to create infographics in an easy way. With
Ampp3d data viz competition: what I’m looking for
Ampp3d’s Martin Belam tells us what makes a winning data visualisation.
How to extract data from a PDF
Nassos Stylianou introduces you to the various tools used for extracting data from PDFs, and weighs up their pros and cons…
Interhacktives competition: be published in Ampp3d
Want to get paid for a data journalism story. Enter our competition and you could be featured on Ampp3d…
Interview with Nicolas Belmonte, Data Scientist at Twitter
Nicolas Belmonte tells Interhacktives what being a Data Scientist at Twitter involves, and what advice
Interview with Neal Mann, Innovations Editor at The Wall Street Journal
Neal Mann works at the Wall Street Journal as Multimedia Innovations Editor. He tells Interhacktives
How to scrape data without coding? A step by step tutorial on import.io
Import.io (pronounced import-eye-oh) lets you scrape data from any website into a searchable database. It is perfect
How to use OutWit Hub to scrape data for free
There are a number of tools allowing you to scrape your own data without knowing code. We’ll show you how to scrape with the free version of OutWit Hub.
Hans Rosling interview: ‘No visualisation beats the football league table’
Hans Rosling is co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation: a not-for-profit organisation which created the infographic