Clean screenshots from Google Street View

Getting better screenshots from Google Street view was the excuse I needed to try developing a Chrome Extension

News, ritual and inflatable unicorns.

A few months ago I found myself on the the Isle of Man for my brother’s stag do.  The stag party had ended up in the seaside town of Port Erin and had barrelled into a pub with my brother in tow, dressed in an inflatable unicorn suit. As

A quick look at UK petitions data in Python

More gentle exploration of python. This time some lines of code for grabbing Parliament petition data.

Local news in a cashless society

Sat in a nice coffee shop, finding an accessing local news is, like forgetting my wallet, a minor inconvenience solved with a tap of my phone. For many that's not the case...

Creating gentle introductions to coding for journalists...

A brief look at how I'm trying to find gentle ways to introduce coding to students

Datashare and Workbench: Experimenting Data journalism apps.

I got a bit of time to play around with two new data journalism tools that have been on my radar. They offer some interesting perspectives on data journalism

A Process and content checklist

I’ve been chatting with my undergraduate students about their experience with digital whilst on work placement. They went to a mix of magazines, regional newspapers(weekly and daily) and some to websites. As you can imagine their experience was a mixed bag from no digital at all to shooting

Defining the virtual journalist

Virtual journalism is often interested in how we take our ideas of journalism into the digital space. But what if there are already journalists there?

Journalism ethics Vs. Research ethics

How do you balance the ethical demands of university research with the practical and professional demands of teaching journalism?

Novice and 'deep dive' journalism books

Which journalism books would you pair up for a novice reader and a 'deep-diver'?