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Anyone who thinks journalism is not about numbers is wrong. Figures in the newsroom are more important than ever. We live in age where more data is collected than ever and that data will be used for setting policy goals and decision-making. But we also all sit behind computer screens and databases are not rocket science anymore, so if you're not using data for investigations, you're missing out.The news is still in text format but tables with figures are ...
“Will anyone with information please come forward”. It's a refrain we always hear police echo in crime-dramas. People are too afraid to come forward though for lack of trust in the official authorities or fear of gangs. That's especially in poverty-stricken, gang-ridden areas. You can easily imagine the classic scene: New York cops at a ghetto crime scene with apartment residents hiding behind their curtains. Then again, we are constantly documenting massive amounts of potential evidence each time we post ...
The events of the past week in the Boston area have the makings of a Hollywood movie. Bombings, shootouts and suspects on the run. But any movie made about the events of the past week should include Reddit. The site, which dubs itself the "front page of the internet" has been a focal point as people come to grips with what has happened.What happened at the MIT shooting? "Suspect #1 is dead, Suspect #2 is on the run, we ...
You’ve got to have been hiding under a rock not to know about the Oscar Pistorius case unfolding in Pretoria and on almost every news website globally. The world’s global off and online media have physically scrummed to get into the courtroom as global viewership has soared in what is set to be the court case of 2013.What’s heightened the interest in the case, apart from the incredibly bizarre circumstances of Reeva Steenkamp’s death, is the realtime reporting and discussion ...
Look, let's be honest for a moment. There's pretty much no hiding from the Oscar Pistorius case. People are going to want to talk to you about it, so you might as well be properly informed. But where to go? We've already established that keeping up with events on Twitter means sifting through a mess of different reports.A more streamlined way of keeping up with events in and around the South African court room where Pistorius' bail hearing is ...
The world has pretty much been glued to Twitter since news broke that renowned paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius had apparently shot and killed his girlfriend.The story continued to occupy large portions of space on people's timelines as Pistorius' bail hearing begun. With all that noise though, it can sometimes be difficult to separate the noise and speculation from the facts being reported by people at the scene.There are however a select few quality journalists worth following during the ...
My 2013 prediction warned of the continued fall in the value of online content which would lead to the production of ever more content as media companies tried to maintain ad revenues.You can think of it as a towering tsunami of content, or as a massive bubble of content inflation.Just as inflation devalues currencies, content inflation is devaluing content.Ryan McCarthy, Deputy Editor of Reuters.com, and the former Business Editor of the Huffington Post, comes to a similar conclusion:The dirty secret ...When it comes to making industry predictions I always resolve not to make any, but as you can see, I have trouble keeping my new year's resolutions.Two years ago I made the same resolution and failed. Back then I wrote:The media is dead, long live the media. We now have more media, in more formats, in more times of the day and night, from more people -- than at any other time in history. And we will get even more ...
It was just over a year ago that BuzzFeed hired editor-in-chief Ben Smith away from Politico to help build the cat-happy publication into a major media company. In the intervening months, it hasacquired a Facebook advertising company, hired a longform editor, set up a video division led by Ze Frank in a new Los Angeles office, and launched an entertainment section. Last week it closed a Series D round of US$19-million, even though the US$15-million it raised in a Series C round sits in the ...
There are a lot of places where journalists aren't really welcome and there are plenty of people out there looking to find chinks in any news hound's armour. Rapid advances in technology have only made it easier to find and exploit those weaknesses.Even the most tech-savvy journos are at risk. Just ask Wired reporter Mat Honan. Last year Honan's Google, Twitter, and Apple ID accounts were all broken into, allowing the hackers to remotely erase all the data on ...
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