The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) is offering to pay travel and accommodation for journalists from ASEM countries (these include the UK, China, Australia, Spain, Thailand, India, Ireland and Japan) to attend the 10th ASEF Journalists’ Colloquium on Crisis/Disaster Reporting.
The event will be held in Luxembourg from 4-6 November 2015.
Applications need to be submitted online by Tuesday, 12 May 2015 – more details here.
Structured Stories is a news database under construction which intends to empower everyone to collect, use and improve a permanent record of news events. Creator David Caswell wants to switch the current approach to archives, which “is just not working”, for “some form of structured information that can be networked.”
According to Caswell, adding value to the structured narrative could be a way to return to something similar to the economic mechanism of the 20th century: a distribution-based bundle.
And as for journalists? Caswell believes it could be a powerful tool: Continue reading
Every year one of the questions most frequently asked by journalism students is “How do I embed a map/chart/infographic/liveblog/video/audio/gallery/tweet/document in a WordPress site?”
Here is a comprehensive overview of what is and is not possible in terms of embedding, and what you should do if you cannot embed. Continue reading
We are in the golden age of verification: a generation of journalists trained to process content rather than check it; the culling of the subs who used to; and a generation raised on bullshit with the means to check it and the networks to exchange notes. Continue reading
Earlier this week Nieman Labs reported on audio hosting service SoundCloud‘s ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach to content containing copyrighted material:
“If your content contains any copyrighted material to which you haven’t secured the rights — even if you have a valid fair use claim — SoundCloud may take it down at any time.”
The story came from a podcast hosted – you guessed it – on SoundCloud (also embedded below). It suggested that even if you are adhering to local laws, laws in other countries may trump those. An appeal under US fair use exemptions brought this response from SoundCloud: Continue reading
The BBC current affairs programme Newsnight delved into network analysis this week. Network analysis generally involves generating diagrams which show clusters of relationships between people: a particularly powerful way of showing everything from power relationships to echo chambers and which people dominate or bridge particular groups of people. Continue reading
Online video project newsPeeks have put together a documentary on surveillance. I really enjoyed it, so I’m sharing it here. Not only is the content great (newsPeeks were live at the Logan Symposium on the topic late last year so got some great contacts), but the production is a great example of online-native video (disclosure: I’m an unpaid advisor).
I’m organising an election hackday at the BBC in Birmingham on Monday April 27.
The event will involve journalists from the BBC and other news websites in the Midlands – but more importantly it’s open to anyone who wants to get stuck into data related to the key issues this election.
If you want to sign up to take part you can do so here. That page also includes details on times and location.
Some more details:
The developers group Democracy Club have created an app which collects the CVs of candidates standing in the general election.
Democracy Club CVs is intended to help constituents get access to information on their candidates’ experience and background.
Users can also use the site to ask candidates for their CVs by sending an email or tweeting them. Continue reading
Scott Dodson, aka @GameBiz, will be speaking at the event
This Thursday I’ll be speaking at a free event on the opportunities for using game dynamics in journalism: Gamification Augmentation.
The event, taking place in Birmingham, features a refreshing range of experts from sectors using gamification techniques, including Stephen Priestnall, Nick Webber and Scott Dodson.
You can register for a place here.
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