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#ddj: Reasons to cheer from Amsterdam’s Data-Driven Journalism conference
Data-driven journalism? Here’s the first reason to rejoice: Data is attractive enough to get scores of journalists from all across Europe and the US to gather in Amsterdam in the midst of the summer holidays!
What’s more, most of the participants came to tell about their work, not about what they should be doing.
Keeping tabs on British tabloids
Citizen media watchdogs are mushrooming in the UK, with at least 10 blogs writing about the media and its mistakes. But why are they needed? Shouldn’t the media itself, apparently dedicated to the pursuit of truth, be challenging its own errors?
As social media enable links to spread faster, more and more people are likely to discover this particular corner of the Internet. And as long as newspapers keep misbehaving, media watchdogs are not going away.
Prison Valley: Breakaway web documentary
In the landmark French web documentary Prison Valley, journalist David Dufresne and photographer Philippe Brault investigate the prison industry in Fremont County, a remote part of Colorado, USA. The two reporters explore an area that has 36,000 inhabitants, over 7,000 inmates and 13 jails.
“Tens of thousands people” visited the website, www.prisonvalley.com, since it went online on 22 April, 2010, according to David Dufresne. “24 per cent watched it in full”, said the journalist. It’s a success that looks set to change the documentary world.
Google: friend or foe for news publishers?
Late into last Wednesday evening the debate raged, perhaps even more fiercely than usual, in the cosy room at the top of London’s Frontline Club. For a packed crowd – many established regulars, alongside a healthy handful of new faces – the night’s topic was of particular interest: “Google: friend or foe for news publishers?”
HTML5 for journalists
If you are involved in online publishing in any way you are almost certainly familiar with some HTML. Even if it is only by pressing buttons in your CMS.
Well, HTML is changing significantly for the first time in the best part of a decade, and you’ll need to learn to at least recognise, if not use, some new tags.
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- Lessons to learn from successful online journalism businesses
- Journalism meets ‘big’ data
- Fear and objectivity in conflict reporting
- Data-driven journalism: Enriching the news
- In digital publishing, journalists yet to claim role as content brokers
- Fear and dialogue in Copenhagen
- Science PR: Putting journalists out of the picture
- Conflict Reporting 2010: Lessons from Israel
- Google’s Newspass not a magic wand for publishers
- Fashion journalism: the fine art of, well, a fine art
- Like a person with a quill learning to operate a typewriter
- Berlusconi gag law sparks protest, but likely to pass
- How to get your sound in the cloud
- A primer on EU funding for NGOs
- In Norway, newspapers tackle e-tablets together
- Miracle boy of Tripoli sparks a Dutch debate
- MYScience meets RELATE: Future-proofing science journalism?
- Data driven journalism: Making sense of the data deluge
- Followers and friends in Brussels
- Canada’s Digital Strategy: All talk and no action?
- BILDblog founder on lessons learned while writing a book
- Reconsidering journalism education
- Press Freedom in Turkey: Signs of hope for 2010?
- Translated: Two Swedes talk censorship and child pornography in Europe
- Press Freedom 2010: An EJC field guide
- Through the lens: A photographer talks cinematic effects and Haiti
- Canada’s parliament seeks Google’s advice about new media
- Despite financial challenges, Le Monde gets a makeover
- Why the Europeana initiative is still important
- Reconciling journalism and political conflict
- Reactions to Lawrence Lessig in Rome
- European editors reject AP decision to use Great Recession
- German media stakeholders discuss regulations for commercial TV in an Internet era
- Former Times editor says journalism students must be quick to adapt
- German regulators consider micromanaging news on commercial TV
- Sir Berners-Lee and the African journalist
- Experimental Europe: Dealing with FP7 complexities
- Romani decree would require licence to upload
- Experimental Europe: Why some FP7 research projects fall short
- At 20minutos.es, portadistas play central role in merged newsroom
- Small talk: Notes of a multilingual writer
- Comment is free, but French comment sections are sacred
- Middle East viewers skip Arabic offers from European broadcasters
- EU presidency no help to image of Spanish Prime Minister
- Alone with social networks in Perigord, France
- Media Helping Media: An (un)official guide to training journalists
- The future of international summits: Security communities exchange ideas via intranet
- In Haiti, social networking ecosystem links victims, reporters and aid agencies
- In Canada, ethnic press influences multilingual media market
- Evolution, not revolution: An academic examines the blogosphere
- Game, set, match coverage: Newspaper publishers seek digital rights for sports reporting
- From outside Iran, Jaras reports on the Green Movement
- iPhone triggers new business in sports news
- Google searches for balance in China
- New bill on protection of sources “imperfect,” say French journalists
- Missouri sheds light on future of journalism with a candle
- Net Effect: European governments clash with Facebook privacy outlook
- Iran’s nuclear power: Failing to fuel smart reporting
- The EU journalist’s guide to the Spanish presidency
- Dubai Declaration: From Gatekeeper to Networker - the public promise of the new journalism
- CNN, Tiger Woods and the All-Star Tribute that wasn’t
- KPN considers crowds, social media for reputation management
- My new best Twitter friend: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
- In decline, financial journalism needs experienced guts
- China’s official media: Will the West ever want to watch?
- Media welcome comments, but journalists ignore the crowds
- How Internet structure affects content pluralism
- Passion drives social networking solutions at PdF - Europe
- In France, a rush of community news sites
- End of days for commercial TV?
- Reporting the financial crisis: A media failure?
- World Press Photo: Smile, it is an order
- Moldova and the media: Why track human trafficking?
- ZDFneo: New spur for German public TV
- Pitching for Publication: Starting Out
- European journalists: Comrades in Arms?
- American ad law fuzzy on disclosure rules, US behind EU on regulations
- Brussels: Exile or Opportunity for German Politicians?
- The Curriculum Trap: Future-proofing Youth Media and Education
- Association of online publishers to lobby government in France
- Goodbye to advertising on Spanish state TV
- Innovate to inspire: How can we empower the next generation?
- Reporting from virtual worlds
- A glimpse at Picnic09
- Five ways news sites can generate links
- Networked Journalism: Will it spark a golden era of journalism?
- New bid to boost diversity among French journalists
- Freesheets beautify but don’t improve Italian media landscape
- Spain’s Digital Dilemma
- AP and Reuters: Competing visions for online news
- Rebuilding ambition in television
- A media storm and the disaster that never befell Riga
- Gamescom 2009: Instant everything and the addictive potential of marriage
- Managing director of World Press Photo on the difficulties of photojournalism
- Italian bloggers strike against government
- Things newspapers could do: Traffic reporting for mobile web
- AFP ignores scoops, say French papers
- Hot or not: Breaking down the hot news doctrine
- The truth about Marika: Lie or Gesamtkunstwerk?
- New media observatory: White elephant or Trojan horse?
- Digital TV in shackles
- Swiss TV bites back at vampire Sarkozy
- Training Facebook in the land of Vkontakte
- Reactions from Belgrade: Serbian journalists indicted for promoting, enabling war crimes
- Teaching Twitter in Ukraine
- Top journalists give tips on YouTube
- The road to journalism continues: Why we choose to be journalists
- Why Iran will never be the same again
- State aid and 10 Commandments to revive French press
- Mastering the mobile phone frontier
- Where is Web 2.0 in Ukraine?
- Rowing the slaveships of online journalism
- Media Pluralism Monitor unveiled
- Twitter and the lone reporter
- Of markets and muzzling
- The Internet: Tool of tyranny or democracy?
- Portrait: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro
- France waking up to news revolution
- Journalism under friendly fire?
- Bing News search: Extra Extra?
- Wolfram Alpha is beta search service
- Catalan news site covers Barca with a social flair
- Postcard: Creative Companies Conference
- Revisiting the paywall
- Swine flu, media fever
- French anti-piracy bill carries new status for online press
- Readers want articles, not newspapers
- Kazakhs protest Internet censorship law
- Science communication gets savvy
- Collecting royalties for articles
- The benign ecology of Public Broadcasting
- Prague puts limits on media freedom
- I’m a journalist – Get me out of here! (Why media freedom is no joke)
- Letting Google crawl all over you: Examining ACAP
- Journalists become stakeholders in innovation systems
- Flashbacks: Interfacing Innovation conference
- Six reasons legacy media products in Europe are surviving
- Sharing stories of Muslim integration in Italy
- Sister: 15 years of searching for truth
- The road to journalism: Why we choose to be journalists
- State of the Media: Legacy media journalists are pessimistic
- Postcard from Perugia: Notes and quotes from the Perugia International Journalism Festival
- Mine magazine: Hold an RSS feed in your hands
- Journalism: A product of its environment?
- The Guardian leads the way: All about APIs
- Review: MediaGuardian Changing Media Summit 2009
- Reporting from Gitmo: Getting in and going beyond the itinerary
- The end of online anonymity in Italy?
- Time to go after Google?
- Making time for ethics on St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago
- Blogging The Middle East
- Telcom Italia’s not so Capital idea
- A high-priced affair: DNA
- Media Freedom in Egypt: Interview with Human Rights Watch
- TV hostess escorts Italians to Facebook
- Content thieves: To catch or not to catch?
- At a Freemium: Finding the best business strategy for your content
- Guarding freedom of the press
- In Italy it’s Arrivederci, Facebook!
- Twitter accounts for journalists to follow
- Postcard from Paris: Interviewing 6 billion Others
- It’s complex: Becoming a stranger in your own land
- European Institute of Technology: The tapas principle
- Monitor the banter on your beat using RSS like a pro
- 10 things journalists should know about fixers: Covering minorities
- User-generated content on trial in Italy
- European Institute of Technology: KIC(K)starting innovation or networking itself to death?
- Morning papers: What made headlines in Russia and Ukraine during the gas crisis
- Minding the gap: How to make the case for online ad spend
- Three guides to writing: Structure, struggle and alcohol
- The story before the headline
- Korean democracy detained with Minerva
- Obama, YouTube and ‘Democratisation of Fundraising’
- Lost in Google? How to optimise your writing for the web
- Tools for liveblogging
- When an economic crisis is not a crisis
- Scaring up an audience in the attention economy
- Obama to the credit crunch: Tracking major events and magnetic personalities
- Journalspace makes the case for backing up
- The IDF and other legions on YouTube: Useful sources?
- How to: Bail out of your newspaper and dive into the blogosphere
- Prime real estate: Who’s who on the Neilsen Online list
- Talk it up: Brand strategy online
- Traversing Twitter: Tweets for journalists
- Separating journalism and the media
- Citizen journalism in the age of global terrorism
- Beyond the Piazzas: Internet access in Italy on the wane
- Mass Media: An instrument of war?
- Hybrid economies and journalism
- Europeana: Digital Grand Tour delayed
- Innovation Journalism: Copyright and Creative Commons
- Guardian feeds its readers
- Poor execution: Media freedom in Moldova
- Unique culture centre in Limburg hosts World Press Photo
- Seven simple writing tips for social news
- Postcard from China: Creative Commons launches in Hong Kong
- Youth media gets closer to the EU
- Examining viral marketing disasters
- The language economy and the credit crisis
- Introducing Reporter and Editor 2.0
- Clairvoyance and scandal at the 2008 German Television Awards Ceremony
- Associated Press announces content marketplace
- Picnic multimedia page
- Of offline domains
- What companies don’t understand about social media
- Clocking the chit chat: Presenting at Picnic
- Who’s on(line) first?yright
- Magazine layouts gain popularity with blogs
- Of webwashers and enablers: Multimedia Semantics Conference in Crete
- They talk to us about WE
- Reshaping the American television market
- Top mistakes made by journalists in social media
- Challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Three
- Dealing with trolls
- Challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Two
- An unclean slate: The gap between traditional and new media
- In the hood: ENJN training starts
- German mobile TV a non-starter
- Challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy: One
- Actively European: Euractive.com, a profile
- The unreachable peace in the Middle East
- Did I do that? Preventing identity theft
- The Redlasso problem
- New media and social change in the Arab and Muslim world
- Knowing too much
- Public relations primer
- Blogskeptics ponder regulation in Europe
- Unpublished: The Internet eraser
- Part Two: Thriving in the “Me” era
- The right to blog: freedom’s next frontier
- Chernobyl: The unforgettable fire
- Part two: Future user guidance in television and online video
- Future user guidance in television and online video
- I’m a stranger here myself
- Avoiding the backlash: A retrospective on the AP debacle
- Part One: Surviving the “Me” era
- Journalist above all
- When the threat comes from within
- When customers go bad
- Globalised business and the limits of media regulation
- The US orphan works bill and you
- All eyes on Ireland
- Platforms for inter-religious dialogue?
- Online democracy is here to stay
- Creative Commons: For journalists?
- Diving into shallow coverage
- Zittrain in the Netherlands
- Transparency begins at home
- How much is a link worth?
- Who is copying your content
- German Public Broadcasters try to defuse Public Value Test
- Protecting online video
- A look at German television
- Visiting journalists brush up on trade, exchange stories
- Tearing down the paywall
- Barking up the wrong tree: Quality in commercial television
- Links: The currency of the web
- Covering Africa in The Hague
- Five steps toward revolutionary web strategy
- Private equity investors in German media
- Peace journalism in practice
- Despite billion eyes on the web, content misuse is rampant
- The German TV market as seen from abroad
- Whither goes NPR
- Really, simple syndication
- Nation 2.0
- The new foreign correspondent is looking for adventure
- The European Union’s effect on copyright law
- UGC: News with street cred?
- Oops: Dealing With corrections in the digital world
- On the borderlands of the Fourth Estate II
- The advantages of copying
- Postcard: Rolling along a Riga river
- Discussion Points: Gender equality in the labour market
- Be careful where you upload
- Broadcasting regulations to govern online video?
- Between consumption and participation - consumer/citizen models in the digital environment
- “We know already that we’re a strange country”
- Risk management in media policy: Balancing stakeholders
- On the borderlands of the Fourth Estate
- Got something to say? Creating a comment policy
- Postcard from Japan: Covering the challenges of an ageing society
- The future of the Internet is far from certain
- Risk management in media policy: Dealing with complexity
- A brief guide to social news sites
- The danger of saying “Thank You”
- Risk management in media policy: The challenges of diversity
- Books that journalists should read: Edwin Black
- Risk management in media policy: The context of EU politics
- Risk management in media policy
- Avoiding copyright catastrophe
- Watermarking for the web
- Brain drain - Robin Hood in reverse?
- What duties have journalists?
- A brief history of copyright on the web: Part one
- Bridging the gap
- Tracking images on the web
- Europe goes “e”: the European challenge towards eGovernment
- Full or partial: the RSS debate
- Postcard from Nantes:Neonet Eur@dio Nantes
- How to: Journalism 2.0
- Postcard from Paris: Cinéma de Québec à Paris
- Service-neutral air waves in Europe
- Media democratization on the battlefield II
- Detecting the plagiarist within
- German broadcasting in a crisis of meaning
- Don’t take chocolate from the right-wing media
- Dealing with plagiarism in the digital age
- Standing up for journalism
- Public money for commercial broadcasters?
- The dangers of user-generated content
- The public broadcasting license fee and public value
- Media democratization on the battlefield
- Life in convergence culture
- Video: Chocolate and the future of journalism
- Belgian site promotes use of information laws
- Trust me. I’m objective!
- Licensing your content
- Helping to revolutionize journalism
- News and commercial TV
- Content for ageing audiences
- Postcard from: A basement in London
- A second helping of Picnic
- Dancing through the Picnic programme
- Out to market in Amsterdam
- Wagging the long tail
- From payola to pandora
- Serbian students finish tour of Dutch media outlets
- Innovation journalism: Detecting weak signals
- Innovation Journalism: Detecting Weak Signals (Day 1)
- Waves of praise roll in for Altered Oceans series
- Politicians pontificate on media theory
- Internet thought leaders meet on iCommons ground
- Facing up to conflict
- Postcard: Innovation journalism in Ljubljana
- Broadcasting to a younger public
- Press freedom in the digital era
- “Truth doesn’t reveal itself by accident”
- More than 600 journalists descend upon Melbourne
- Iranian photographer among winners of Pulitzer Prize
- Gatti wins journalism award: For Diversity. Against Discrimination
- RTNDA announces regional winners of Edward R. Murrow awards
- Digital road signs for German public service television
- Postcard from: Perugia International Journalism Festival
- Some style advice for EJC contributors
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