Data vizualisation conest to launch for aspiring journalists. Credit: Image by Thinkstock A contest is to be launched which will give aspiring journalists a chance to have a data visualisation published on the Trinity Mirror-owned data journalism site Ampp3d. Ampp3d, which focuses on social sharing of its content, was launched by Trinity Mirror late last year, in a follow-up to another digital-only experiment UsVsTh3m. The competition is being run by Ampp3d in partnership with the Interhacktives website, led by site editor Sarah Spickernell, along with other students on City University London's interactive journalism masters course. As part of the competition, entrants need to "produce a mobile-friendly data visualisation", Spickernell explained. "All the statistics indicate people are increasingly moving away from desktop to mobile in the way they consume news," she said, but added that "not many data visualisations are very specific for mobile".
The hope is that the competition will help to "look forward and shift that over towards mobile". Made a mistake? Advice for journalists on online corrections. Making an error in journalism is unfortunate, but it happens. For journalists and news outlets, when an error has occurred, the immediate concern will then be how to handle the correction. Editor of the Regret the Error blog, which is now run on the Poynter Institute website, Craig Silverman has been blogging about the way news outlets have been handling errors and corrections for the past eight years. He said that there remains "a lot of variety" in the way reports of errors are handled, processed within news outlets and corrected. "I think for the public it would be a wonderful thing if there was a lot of clarity and sort of a standard that was widely used by the press in terms of how they encourage people to report mistakes, how they manage them and how they then push out corrections once they realise that they have in fact made an error.
" However, he added that there does now seem to be what he identified as "a move towards perhaps a little bit more standardisation online". Sixteen tips for better data journalism from the BBC, Guardian and Wales Online. *May only work in Wales - rugby visualisation by Wales Online At one of the sessions at news:rewired – full stream ahead, Journalism.co.uk's conference on digital journalism that took place on Friday (13 July), a panel of fantastic data specialists were assembled to talk about what they do best. Bella Hurrell, specials editor on the BBC News website, James Ball of the Guardian, Claire Miller of Wales Online and Damian Kimmelman, chief executive of Duedil shared their advice on getting more out of data and data-based stories.
Here are their top tips: 1. Pick subjects with a shelf life and update the data. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. The golden rule 9. Looking at the data is a really bad way to find a story. On visualisations 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. NUJ ‘financial crisis’: Leaked report in full. Control panels: Jobseekers Job and PR alerts Recruiters PRs Ask a PR Browse > Home / Jobs / Blog article: NUJ ‘financial crisis’: Leaked report in full Friday, April 18, 2014 NUJ ‘financial crisis’: Leaked report in full May 25th, 2012Posted by Sarah Marshall in Jobs The National Union of Journalists is in ‘financial crisis’, a report leaked to Journalism.co.uk reveals.
Update 4.52pm: This document has been removed at the request of the NUJ. Tags: national union journalists, nuj Similar posts: This entry was posted on Friday, May 25th, 2012 at 4:11 pm and is filed under Jobs. Main news Recent posts Recent comments The latest j-pod home jobs PressGo PressQuest training events and awards freelancers forum © 2014 Mousetrap Media Ltd. BBC to offer journalism masterclasses free online | Media | guar. The public will be able to gain online access to masterclasses delivered by some of the BBC's best-known journalists, including John Simpson and John Humphrys, under plans to be announced later today. BBC executives plan to let licence-fee payers use the corporation's internal training website, which includes thousands of hours of material, as part of a range of partnership agreements. Rival news organisations and broadcasters will also be able to use the material. The BBC claims the website is the most comprehensive of its type in the world.
Other journalists who contribute material include the BBC business editor, Robert Peston, and the security correspondent, Frank Gardner. This initiative will be unveiled later today at the official launch of the BBC Academy, the corporation's dedicated centre of excellence for training in journalism, production, leadership and technology. The BBC says the new initiative demonstrates that it is willing to help commercial competitors. 5 Things to Watch–and Act On « Borrell Associates. We have issued our Top 5 recommendations for local online advertising in 2010. They’re pretty straightforward: Identify and copy the fastest growers, start partnering with other companies, offer “promotions” services to advertisers, monitor but be cautious about mobile, and dive into video advertising. But I thought I’d also offers some predictions for 2010 that might startle you. First, I’m excited to announce that we have a new list of speakers we’ll be announcing this week for our Feb. 8-9 conference in New York.
In the spirit of identifying and copying the fastest-growing local online advertising companies, we’ve gone to the trouble of identifying them for you — and getting their top executives to stand up at our conference and tell you why they’ve become the new darlings of Main Street. OK, on to the startling things. I believe that 2010 will see a clear divide between the local media companies that are crossing the gorge and those being left behind. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Future to launch 'coffee table' superhero magazine | Media | gua. Future Publishing will look to capitalise on the popularity of superhero movies such as Iron Man and Batman: the Dark Knight with a new premium "coffee table" magazine, Comic Heroes. The £7.99 132-page quarterly follows a recent superhero special by Future's SFX magazine, which was one of the best-selling issues in its 10-year history. Future launched another premium coffee table magazine, based around the online role-playing game World of Warcraft, last year. Comic Heroes will be edited by Jez Bickham and will take an "in-depth look at the latest superhero movies, videogames and the comic books themselves", said the publisher. The launch issue will focus on Iron Man 2, starring Robert Downey Jr. "SFX readers have always maintained a healthy interest in superheroes but the recent SFX special demonstrated an appetite from enthusiasts for more.
Comic Heroes is a premium-priced magazine that promises to give die-hard fans a very special package. " BBC journalist sacked over Hell's Angel link. Does 'Radiohead Journalism' Make Sense? Wired has a story written by journalist Paige Williams about her experience putting up a long form feature story about the pseudonymously named Dolly Freed, who had written a rather successful book as a teenager called Possum Living: How to Live Well Without A Job and (Almost) No Money -- but following the publication, Dolly decided to effectively disappear. Williams tracked her down and wrote a feature article about her, but couldn't find anyone willing to publish it.
The NY Times was going to, but backed out when Williams refused to reveal Freed's real name. So, instead, she put the article on her own site and put up a Paypal donation button, hoping to recover her expenses. She calls it "Radiohead journalism" after Radiohead's famed "name your own price" experiment. Then, with little direct publicity -- beyond mentioning it on Facebook and Twitter -- the story got a bit of attention.