Yesterday saw the launch of the first (surprisingly) international data journalism awards, backed by the European Journalism Centre*, Google, and the Global Editors Network. There are 6 awards – 3 categories, each split into national/international and local/regional subcategories: investigative journalism; visualisation; and apps. Each comes with prize money of 7,500 euros. The closing date for entries is April 10. It’s
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The European Journalism Centre and Mirko Lorenz are conducting a survey into data journalism. Over to you.
This post forms part of the Carnival of Journalism, whose theme this month is universities’ roles in their local community. In traditional journalism the concept of community is a broad one, typically used when the speaker really means ‘audience’, or ‘market’. In a networked age, however, a community is an asset: it is a much more significant source of information
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I’ve produced a series of 5 podcasts talking about the results of my survey into blogging journalists. You can hear the first 3 on the European Journalism Centre’s website (embedded in the outside column) – the final 2 are set to go live in the following weeks.
I’ve managed to secure sponsorship from the European Journalism Centre to (initially) support up to five attendees to JEEcamp. So if you’d like to come to JEEcamp but had discounted it because of cost, contact Kathlyn Clore at the European Journalism Centre on clore@ejc.nl She will be able to identify if you qualify for some sponsorship. Many thanks to the
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