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Last week I wrote about the problem with trusting Twitter to keep a public record of all tweets. But it’s not just social networks; we can’t trust any website to keep information on our behalf.
3 recent articles highlight the problem particularly well.
In August 2015 Twitter shut down a number of ‘deleted tweets’ archives. Image: TechCrunch
If you rely on Twitter or other social media services to act as a record of history, a series of incidents over the past six months should make you think again – and take control. Continue reading
Earlier this year I spoke at the BBC’s Data Fusion Day (you can find a liveblog of the event on Help Me Investigate) about data journalism workflows. The presentation slides are embedded below (the title is firmly tongue-in-cheek), but I thought I’d explain a bit more in a series of posts – beginning here.
Most newsrooms take a newswire of some sort – national and international news from organisations like the Press Association, Reuters, and Associated Press.
Data journalism is no exception. If you want to find stories in data, it helps to know what data is coming out, when it comes out.
Online Journalism Blog 