Bella Hurrell is the Specials Editor with BBC News Online. I asked her how data journalism was affecting their work for a forthcoming article. Here is her response in full: The BBC news specials team produces multimedia interactives, daily graphics as well as more complex data visualisations. The team consists of journalists, designers and developers all working closely together, sitting
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Teaching has begun in the new academic year and once again I’m handing out a list of recommended RSS feeds. Last year this came in the form of an OPML file, but this year I’m using Google Reader bundles (instructions on how to create one of your own are here). There are 50 feeds in all – 5 feeds in
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As part of an ongoing series, Deborah Bonello talks about a career that has taken her from business journalism in London to video journalism in South America, and a current role producing video at the FT. What education and professional experience led to your current job? After I graduated from Bristol University in 1998 (I wrote for my student newspaper
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In this fifth and second to last part of this series I’ll review the research on how and to what degree multimedia is utilized in online journalism. Previous parts of this series have focused on the revolution that never happened (part 1); how to define the three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia
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This post is cross-published from my new journalism/new media-blog. In the first post in this series I argued that technology may not play such an important role to the development of journalism in new media as people seem to believe. In this post I will look at the three assets of new technology that are generally portrayed as the most
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Reuters has been among the leading news organizations in its use of Internet technology, both in its forays into citizen participation in the developed and developing worlds, and in experimenting with audio visual tools to offer fine narrative journalism. Following the success of its online documentary on the Iraq war last year, Bearing Witness, Reuters recently produced another interactive multimedia
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What could possibly be common between a detailed account of America’s historic role in Middle East peace and a story about urban acrobats leaping across buildings in London and Beirut? Perhaps, the way in which you choose to tell them. Designed to look and read like a magazine, complete with the swishing sound that accompanies each turn of a fascinating
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Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher, has announced details of their grandly titled Article of the Future project. Their prototypes, published at http://beta.cell.com, are the result of what Emilie Marcus, Editor in Chief, Cell Press called, “…a challenge to redesign from scratch how to most effectively structure and present the content of a traditional scientific article in an online environment.” Prototypes
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The third part of the results of my survey of blogging journalists looks at how blogging has affected how stories are researched. As journalists move onto gathering information for a story, the scope of easily accessible sources is made broader by journalists’ involvement in blogs.
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