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The center of everything!

Here’s an interesting puzzle. Where is the heart of Greater Manchester? It turns out it’s a little patch of land just off Blue Moon Street – near Manchester City’s ground. Not one to please the Reds! Or that the heart of Newcastle is 5 Dugdale Road. Well they

Restarting news: Will Journalism have much say in what journalism becomes?

Prof George Brock has an interesting post as a prelude to his talk at the international journalism festival in Perugia which is well worth a read. He ponders an incomplete list of things that might shape what comes next in journalism. [http://georgebrock.net/incomplete-list-things-going-shape-next-journalism/] There are a couple that

5 steps to turn you into a journalism coder (maybe)

I’ve been thinking alot about coding. Staring at some code for an hour and then realising that it’s not working because you spelt slider wrong will do that! So it was nice to see a piece on the Guardian website, Head of Cardiff J-school Richard Sambrook has been

Archive mashup pics with extra interactivity

Update: Google maps streetview now has a history option [http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/go-back-in-time-with-street-view.html] which might offer some useful sources (not too historic though) Update 2: And people are doing great stuff with video [http://londonist.com/2014/04/new-video-beautifully-blends-old-and-new-london.php] . Over the last few weeks

Who broke Moyes? Breaking news in a multi-channel world

So Moyes has gone. But does, as some have claimed, this mark another first for twitter? Like him, loathe sport, I think the whole thing offers an interesting case study to ponder for journalists of all genres

Doing data in a journalism course

It’s a subject that isn’t going away and it’s also one that generate a huge amount of debate – data journalism. If ever there was a perfect hook to hang all of journalisms best and worst it’s data journalism! But a recent flurry of tweets and a

Creating Instafax style video on your ipad? Harder than you'd think

[https://i0.wp.com/digidickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140227-150324.jpg] Earlier in the week I wrote a post about making instafax style video using free stuff online [http://digidickinson.net/2014/02/24/the-no-budget-way-to-make-bbc-instafax-style-video-for-instagram/] . A few commentators, on and off the site, suggested that this would be the

The no-budget way to make BBC Instafax style video for Instagram

Last week I spent a very pleasant day at the Newsrewired [http://www.newsrewired.com/]conference in London. I was moderating a panel on short form video [http://www.newsrewired.com/2014/02/20/how-newsrooms-are-using-short-form-video-to-engage-audiences/] . It prompted a lot of thinking about what that actually was. But one example of

Is the BBC really a useful benchmark for online journalism?

his semester my Monday mornings are spend in the company of our Foundation Degree students and this morning I was talking about Online [http://www.bbc.co.uk] writing. I spent a bit of time talking about headlines and how important they are in the digital world. They’re not

Data journalism: Making it real

The following is an edited version of a chapter I contributed to a new book Data Journalism: Mapping the Future, published by Abramis academic publishing. [http://www.abramis.co.uk/books/bookdetails.php?id=184549616] The fact that I’m in it aside, I can heartily recommend it as a