Media Mash 2012 Winners announced (view all dates) Media Mash 2012 is an application challenge from NYC Media Lab to create innovative media mashups using data, APIs, and feeds from leading media and technology companies. Winners will receive $10,000 in cash prizes as well as promotional exposure. The Media Mash is open to individuals and organizations in the United States. Media Mash goals: Drive media innovation through developer engagement with media-related APIsConnect media organizations with the developer communityEncourage the media industry to develop their data/API offerings
Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: А́нна Степа́новна Политко́вская; Ukrainian: Га́нна Степа́нівна Політко́вська; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian[1] journalist, writer, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and President of Russia Vladimir Putin.[2] On 7 October 2006 she was shot and killed in the lift of her block of flats, an unsolved murder that continues to attract international attention.[6][7][8] Early life[edit] Journalistic work[edit] Politkovskaya worked for Izvestia from 1982 to 1993 as a reporter and editor of the emergencies and accidents section. Reports from Chechnya[edit] Politkovskaya won a number of awards for her work.[11][12] She used each of these occasions to urge greater concern and responsibility by Western governments that, after the 11 September attacks on the United States, welcomed Putin's contribution to their "War on Terror". Criticism of Vladimir Putin and FSB[edit] She also wrote: A Russian Diary[edit]
Anyone can do it. Data journalism is the new punk | News This is a chord… this is another… this is a third. NOW FORM A BAND So went the first issue of British punk fanzine Sideburns in 1977 in the "first and last part in a series". It might be 35 years old, but this will do nicely as a theory of data journalism in 2012. Why? Crucial to it was the idea: anyone can do it. Is the same true of data journalism? Now is the time to examine this - in May 2010, we published this piece on how reporters would soon be flooded with a "tsunami of data". There are even different streams now - short-form, quick-and-dirty data visualisations of the kind we do every day on the Datablog, right through to complex investigations and visualisations - such as our riots data analysis or the kind of projects which made the shortlist of the Data Journalism Awards, from around the world. So, can we still say that anyone can do data journalism; in the first and last part in a series. 1) This is a dataset 2) Here's another 3) Here are some free tools But is that enough?
Infoactive Information design is about understanding data. Whether you’re writing an article for your newspaper, showing the results of a campaign, introducing your academic research, illustrating your team's performance metrics, or shedding light on civic issues, you need to know how to present your data so that other people can understand it. Regardless of what tools you use to collect data and build visualizations, as an author you need to make decisions around your subjects and datasets in order to tell a good story. And for that, you need to understand key topics in collecting, cleaning, and visualizing data. This free, Creative Commons-licensed e-book explains important data concepts in simple language. Who's behind all of this? This book was crafted by more than 50 volunteers from 14 countries around the globe. Data + Design is also a collaboration between Infoactive and the Donald W. At Infoactive, our goal is to make it easier for people to tell interactive stories with data.
100 books every journalist must read - John Kroll Digital A young journalism student once asked a newspaper editor what she should do to prepare for her hoped-for career as a political reporter. “Read,” the editor said. Absolutely, I thought, sitting between them, waiting for my own interview for a top job to resume. “Read Shakespeare,” he said. “And the Bible.” Forsooth, I thought, that will not beget much gain. I have a more mundane view of the must-read journalism books. They must be examples of journalism, or about the practice or history of journalism and storytelling.They should be of long-term value.They should, in sum, provide the reader with a broad perspective on journalism as a craft and an understanding of key developments. Those rules explain why most of the books on this list are older; it takes time to prove value. This is Version 1.0. The African-American Newspaper, Patrick S. Other voice: Felix F. Find in my store Aim for the Heart: Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia, Al Tompkins June 17, 1972.
OKFestival Updates: Early Bird Ticket Extension, Developer Travel Bursaries and Open Data Cooking! For those just arriving back to daily life after the summer holidays (and the Mars Curiosity landing!), we have some good news regarding OKFestival – our Early Bird ticket deadline has been extended to this Wednesday, August 8th, 2012. This will give you more time to get those tickets reserved well in advance so you can start planning your week with us in Helsinki, Finland this September. While we’re at it, a few more bits of OKFestival-related news: The organisers of the world’s first open data cuisine workshop, the “Art of Data Cooking”, would like to invite you to their event here. With hundreds of tickets already booked in the last month alone by government representatives, programmers, civil society members, hackers, students, teachers and open knowledge advocates around the world, festival organisers are becoming increasingly excited about what is in store for all of us this autumn.
Les livres communication pour les professionnels en communication Facebook, Twitter et le web social: les nouvelles opportunités de business Auteur : Emmanuel FRAYSSE Editeur : Agence Kawa Prix constaté : 36.90€ « (...) En appliquant une stratégie d’influence SRM (Social Relationship Management), toute entreprise peut tirer profit du web social. Conversationnelle, cette stratégie sera menée sur les réseaux sociaux pertinents tels que Facebook, Twitter mais aussi sur son propre site. Véritable guide pratique de référence, ce livre détaille les différentes étapes de mise en place d’une stratégie d’influence au sein du web social. Détails sur « Facebook, Twitter et le web social: les nouvelles opportunités de business » La communication institutionnelle Auteur : Eric Giuily Editeur : Presses Universitaires de France - PUF Prix constaté : 13.00€ Détails sur « La communication institutionnelle » Community management Auteur : Matthieu Chéreau Editeur : Dunod Prix constaté : 19.90€ Détails sur « Community management » Le guide de l'influence. Du Magazine au Magasin
Analyzing the Top 30 Infographics on Visually Ever wonder what makes an infographic successful? Why do some infographics accumulate more than 1 million views and others, barely 100? We’ve talked about viral infographics before, from a creative process standpoint: the story, data and design of an infographic all play a role in whether it will appeal to the masses, as does the way it is promoted. But what does viral content have in common? The primary statistic used is unique pageviews accumulated since the Visual.ly website launched in July 2011. The graphics can be grouped into buckets based on four dimensions: 1. We’ll look at content type (1), design type (3), and data visualization (4) in this post, and leave a study of content domains, or topics, for another day. Four Content Types (The SVG charts embedded below link to the individual graphics, but may not appear in some browsers). 1. 54,097 avg. unique views per graphic (excluding outlier) 2. 45,440 avg. unique views per graphic (excluding outlier) 3. 4. Six Design Types
Boom Lemma uitgevers - Handboek datajournalistiek Diep verborgen, in stapels documenten vol cijfers gloort een prachtige primeur. Dit boek neemt je mee in de wereld van de datajournalistiek. Hoe vind je ‘ruwe data’, de bouwstenen voor gedegen onderzoeksjournalistiek? Hoe vind je in de hooiberg vervolgens een speld? Dit boek kwam mede tot stand dankzij het Stimuleringsfonds voor de Pers (www.svdp.nl) en de Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten (www.vvoj.nl). Doelgroep Het boek is bedoeld voor hbo- en wo-docenten en -studenten journalistiek, media en communicatie. Auteursinformatie Henk van Ess (1962) is onderzoeksjournalist, internetdocent aan Europese universiteiten en voorzitter van de Vereniging Van Onderzoeksjournalisten (VVOJ). Hille van der Kaa (1979) ontwikkelt datajournalistieke tools en is docent bij de masteropleiding Data Journalism van de Universiteit van Tilburg en bij de Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek. Dit boek is ook als digitaal boek verkrijgbaar! Nog geen e-reader, maar wel interesse in het digitale boek?
5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization – ReadWrite In our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture. They provide context and meaning to the often baffling world of big data. This is a snapshot of what is available. We are relying on the work done by Paul Bradshaw, whose blog is an excellent source about the new world of data journalism. Factual Factual provides simple APIs for building Web and mobile apps. How To Create a Table With Factual on Howcast Socrata Socrata is one of a handful of companies and organizations that are shaping the open data movement in government. Google Fusion Tables Google Fusion Tables is a Google Labs project. WikiEDData uses Google Fusion Table to map poverty levels in Washington state school districts: Yahoo! Yahoo! OpenHeatMap OpenHeatMap is another example of how to turn data into maps.
CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users Over the last few months, Creative Commons has been working on the next version of its license suite, version 4.0. The goals of version 4.0 are wide-ranging, but the overall objective is clear: update the licenses so they are considerably more robust, yet easy to understand and use, for both existing communities and new types of users. A key community that version 4.0 aims to serve better are public sector agencies releasing data. Public sector information can be of great value, but the public needs to know what they can do with it. Sui generis database rights One area of particular interest to European data publishers and users will be the shift in how CC licenses handle sui generis database rights. Here’s an example. In 3.0 (International), a user extracts some public transport data in the database in a way that doesn’t implicate copyright. Strengthen reputation and integrity Updated attribution CC 4.0 also attempts to clarify and simplify the attribution requirements.
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