maps Mapping street level crime in an area A little while ago I was playing around with the API at data.police.uk looking at a way to pull the data into a google spreadsheet (and some of the issues around
data journalism How open is open data journalism? Simon Rogers published a post last week that asked “What does data journalism look like in 2016?”. For Rogers, the winners of the data journalism awards“give us a great sense of where
data journalism The Panama Papers & trickle down journalism I’ve been reading a lot about the Panama Papers. As a ‘thing’, the Panama Paper’s is an amazing project. It’s pretty much written the textbook on how to run a
video MOJO on Android? I’m spending some time with Android doing audio and video. I know, why would I do that when there’s the iPhone? You get strong vibes from the community that Android is
Jounalism Journalism Ethics in a digital world: In an nutshell For the last six years or so I’ve done a guest lecture on a colleague’s Journalism Ethics module around the title ethics in a digital world. All the lectures tend to
Ernest Hemingway on Adblocking Whilst doing my daily read around of various things, I found myself at Forbes’ website. I was greeted by the usual pithy ‘quote of the day’ pop-up but with an added element – it
teaching What are the ingredients for creating a journalism portfolio? I’m currently putting together the details for one of my modules for Semester 2. It’s called Multiplatform Journalism and its aimed at first-year journalism students. The general aim is to introduce
Community Journalism My thoughts on #CJ15: What next for community journalism? Yesterday I spent a packed but interesting day at Cardiff Uni for the Centre for Community Journalism’s What next for community journalism conference. I was there to offer a quick overview of
Pondering Email in a social media world A little observation I wanted to share. Over the summer I went away for a few weeks and put my out-of-office message on. At the same time I had a few students emailing
academic Advice to journalism students for being online. Its getting to that point in the academic calendar where I’m writing documentation for the modules I’ll be teaching this year. Looking back over previous years, I’ve noticed how bits
open data Media Mill: Open data newsletter and slides You may have noticed that I’ve been posting about Open Data a lot recently. It’s mainly because of a project that I’m working on as a researcher called Media Mill.
How open is Data Journalism? Where does data journalism get its data? 1.In a brown envelope or mysterious memory stick 2.From freedom of information requests 3.From free (open) government data sources 4.Some will collect
open data Open data and rent-seeking economies Yesterday, I was introduced to a concept I hadn’t heard of before – rent seeking behaviour. Its an economics term that essentially means that instead of investing time developing things that you can
hyperlocal #HLDJ Conference 6th and 7th November 2015 This isn’t meant to be a conference about Hyperlocal data journalism (but it could be!) It’s a conference about the way that Hyperlocal AND/OR data AND/OR journalism might work
data journalism Pulling policing data into Google sheets Last week I had a regional newspaper group in for a few days exploring lots of different things. One area that popped up was data and we did a quick breakout looking at
data journalism Icons of the dead: visualising the deaths of migrant workers in Qatar. Update: The data from the WaPo story was challenged by the Qatar Government resulting in an amendment stating that the data was deaths for all migrants not just those working on world cup
hyperlocal Hyperlocal. open data. journalism conference: If you'll come, I'll build it. Update: I’ve decided on dates. 6th and 7th of November 2015 in Preston. If you’re interested you can tell me what you’d like to see through a quick survey. As
journalism The connected middle class: Ofcom and civic internet use OFCOM have released their Adults’ media use and attitudes report for 2015. It’s a report that is always worth a read through. This is the ten year anniversary edition with a good
open data Open data: What can we expect from the conservatives? We have a conservative government in the UK for the next five years. I’ve been looking at open data a lot for some research that I’m doing so I wanted to
open data Open data overload:yorkopendata and #localdata15 For the last week it’s feels like my life has been all about opendata. My immersion into the world of open data that started last Friday with my trip up to Leeds
open data Reflecting on the Leeds #Datadive Last Friday night, I found myself in a sun filled loft workshop in Leeds. All the people in the room seemed to be in one corner, but that’s where the (free) bar
Pondering How can you spot a digital native? Check their little finger. Apropos of nothing really, I got into an interesting chat with some of the third-year journalism students about how our use of social media would evolve. I wondered aloud about how the physical
code The most important code you can learn: the hyperlink <a href="http://andydickinson.net" > Andy's site </a> It’s amazing isn’t it? How something so simple can be so fundamental. In this world of content
journalism Oborne and the fetish for old school journalism Like many in the media industry I’ve been confronted with a wall of coverage around Peter Oborne’s resignation from the Telegraph. I read his piece when it came out but have
journalism Light the flaming torches and stand back: Are you a good leader of your social media mob? I’m pulling together my yearly online journalism ethics lecture. It’s the fifth-ish lecture on this module (some previous ones online) and the fast-moving nature of this stuff means I’m really
