Tweet Unlocking the secrets of open data journalism in Manchester As more and more public bodies free their data to the public, and with interpretation of that data set to be increasingly important in journalism, it was only a matter of time before someone had the idea of bringing journalists and computer geeks together to [...]
TEDx Manchester - some thoughts
Published in October 3rd, 2009
Tweet I attended TEDx Manchester yesterday - a half-day of presentations and debate on technology, entertainment and design (the TED of the title). I’m still digesting much of what was put out, because there was an awful lot packed into the five-hour programme. Apparently, too, this was the biggest TED event in Europe to date [...]
JEEcamp 09 - some thoughts
Published in May 9th, 2009
Tweet I took part in the second JEEcamp in Birmingham yesterday. Last year, it was very much an experiment to see what might happen if you stuck 50 journalists in a room and let them unconference for a day about how to create a new journalism for the future. I’d been mapping plans for an [...]
Local news, local action
Published in March 28th, 2009
Tweet Anyone who pays any attention to the news cannot have failed to hear of the swingeing cuts in staff being made at newspapers and magazines up and down the UK. Thousands of journalists jobs have disappeared over the last year. Some papers and magazines have been closed down. Over the last couple of weeks, [...]
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