This article is copyright of the author; not for circulation without the author’(s) ’ permission.... more This article is copyright of the author; not for circulation without the author’(s) ’ permission. Please cite if
The Online Journalism Handbook has established itself globally as the leading guide to the fast m... more The Online Journalism Handbook has established itself globally as the leading guide to the fast moving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities for researching, writing and storytelling offered to journalists through new technologies. In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw presents an engaging mix of technological expertise with real world practical guidance to illustrate how those training and working as journalists can improve the development, presentation and global reach of their story through web-based technologies. The new edition is thoroughly revised and updated, featuring: a new chapter on social media and community management, a fully updated chapter on online media law, an increased focus on techniques for finding and verifying information online, an expansion of the section on analytics, a completely revised chapter on data journalism, new chapters dedicated to liveblogging and mobile journalism, and writing for social media platforms. The Online Jo...
Numbers have become fundamental to our society—from the zeroes and ones of digitised culture, to ... more Numbers have become fundamental to our society—from the zeroes and ones of digitised culture, to big data driven services in politics, policing and commerce. And as journalists reporting on society it is essential to be able to find, understand and tell stories about those numbers: data journalism. In this chapter Paul Bradshaw outlines the surprisingly wide range of sources of data that journalists now work with, the stories that are told, the techniques that are used, and the pitfalls and ethical dilemmas that reporters now need to address.
Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelation... more Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelations that police were using surveillance powers to access journalists’ communications data to identify sources, regional newspaper journalists show few signs of adapting source protection and information security practices to reflect new legal and technological threats, and there is widespread ignorance of what their employers are doing to protect networked systems of production. This paper argues that the “reactive” approach to source protection that seeks to build a legal defence if required, is no longer adequate in the context of workforce monitoring, and that publishers need to update their policies and practice to address ongoing change in the environment for journalists and sources.
This article is copyright of the author; not for circulation without the author’(s) ’ permission.... more This article is copyright of the author; not for circulation without the author’(s) ’ permission. Please cite if
The Online Journalism Handbook has established itself globally as the leading guide to the fast m... more The Online Journalism Handbook has established itself globally as the leading guide to the fast moving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities for researching, writing and storytelling offered to journalists through new technologies. In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw presents an engaging mix of technological expertise with real world practical guidance to illustrate how those training and working as journalists can improve the development, presentation and global reach of their story through web-based technologies. The new edition is thoroughly revised and updated, featuring: a new chapter on social media and community management, a fully updated chapter on online media law, an increased focus on techniques for finding and verifying information online, an expansion of the section on analytics, a completely revised chapter on data journalism, new chapters dedicated to liveblogging and mobile journalism, and writing for social media platforms. The Online Jo...
Numbers have become fundamental to our society—from the zeroes and ones of digitised culture, to ... more Numbers have become fundamental to our society—from the zeroes and ones of digitised culture, to big data driven services in politics, policing and commerce. And as journalists reporting on society it is essential to be able to find, understand and tell stories about those numbers: data journalism. In this chapter Paul Bradshaw outlines the surprisingly wide range of sources of data that journalists now work with, the stories that are told, the techniques that are used, and the pitfalls and ethical dilemmas that reporters now need to address.
Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelation... more Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelations that police were using surveillance powers to access journalists’ communications data to identify sources, regional newspaper journalists show few signs of adapting source protection and information security practices to reflect new legal and technological threats, and there is widespread ignorance of what their employers are doing to protect networked systems of production. This paper argues that the “reactive” approach to source protection that seeks to build a legal defence if required, is no longer adequate in the context of workforce monitoring, and that publishers need to update their policies and practice to address ongoing change in the environment for journalists and sources.
Data journalism is a key skill for journalists to differentiate themselves in a world where almos... more Data journalism is a key skill for journalists to differentiate themselves in a world where almost anyone can publish, and competition for journalism jobs is fierce.
Whether it's hard stories from government spending and MPs' expenses, or softer stories from sports data, fashion trends or music and social activity, our increasingly digital world is providing a rich range of potential new story sources - and new forms of storytelling too.
This short ebook introduces you quickly to key techniques in finding that data and turning it into stories - through a 'Data Journalism Heist'.
This isn't about the huge investigative projects that you hear about, but the everyday stories that you can do with speed and simplicity. It's about getting in, getting the data, and getting the story out safely. No one gets hurt.
One spreadsheet can tell many stories. You just have to know the right questions to ask.
Based... more One spreadsheet can tell many stories. You just have to know the right questions to ask.
Based on a decade of training journalists and working with news organisations on data-driven stories, Finding Stories In Spreadsheets outlines the techniques for asking the right questions of data using tools like Excel and Google spreadsheets.
These aren't just questions about numbers: you'll find out how spreadsheet techniques can help you find the 'needle in the haystack' in text data. You'll learn how to clean up and modify your data so that you can ask it different questions, or get it ready for maps or charts, how to create new data from raw materials, and how to combine datasets to look for connections and trends.
With regular examples from journalism and real life data to work with, Finding Stories In Spreadsheets is *full* of those questions, in the language that spreadsheets understand.
Em “Webjornalismo: 7 caraterísticas que marcam a diferença” estuda-se
cada uma das particularida... more Em “Webjornalismo: 7 caraterísticas que marcam a diferença” estuda-se
cada uma das particularidades que distinguem o jornalismo que se faz na Web
dos que se fazem noutros meios.
Com essa finalidade foram convidados sete autores de sete países, tendo-lhes
sido pedido um capítulo sobre cada uma das sete caraterísticas.
Scraping - getting a computer to capture information from online sources - is one of the most pow... more Scraping - getting a computer to capture information from online sources - is one of the most powerful techniques for data-savvy journalists who want to get to the story first, or find exclusives that no one else has spotted. Faster than FOI and more detailed than advanced search techniques, scraping also allows you to grab data that organisations would rather you didn’t have - and put it into a form that allows you to get answers.
Scraping for Journalists introduces you to a range of scraping techniques - from very simple scraping techniques which are no more complicated than a spreadsheet formula, to more complex challenges such as scraping databases or hundreds of documents. At every stage you'll see results - but you'll also be building towards more ambitious and powerful tools.
You’ll be scraping within 5 minutes of reading the first chapter - but more importantly you'll be learning key principles and techniques for dealing with scraping problems.
Unlike general books about programming languages, everything in this book has a direct application for journalism, and each principle of programming is related to their application in scraping for newsgathering. And unlike standalone guides and blog posts that cover particular tools or techniques, this book aims to give you skills that you can apply in new situations and with new tools.
Including comprehensive coverage on both print and online, consumer and free magazines, Magazine ... more Including comprehensive coverage on both print and online, consumer and free magazines, Magazine Editing looks at how magazines work and explains the dual role of the magazine editor. John Morrish and Paul Bradshaw consider the editor both as a journalist, having to provide information and entertainment for readers, and as a manager, expected to lead and supervise successfully the development of a magazine or periodical.
Looking at the current state of the magazine market in the twenty-first century, the third edition explains how this has developed and changed in recent years, with specific attention paid to the explosion of apps, e-zines, online communities and magazine websites. Featuring case studies, interviews with successful editors, examples of covers and spreads, and useful tables and graphs, this book discusses the editor’s many roles and details the skills needed to run a publication.
How do we practice journalism in a digital world, in which the old 'rules' no longer apply?
Th... more How do we practice journalism in a digital world, in which the old 'rules' no longer apply?
This text offers comprehensive, instructive coverage of the techniques and secrets of being a successful online journalist, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. Reflecting the vitality of the web, it will inspire aspiring journalists to acquire new skills and make sense of a transforming industry.
Marcus Leaning (ed), 2015. Collaborative Learning in Media Education. Santa Rosa: Informing Science Press., Mar 2015
Stories & Streams is a case study in delivering media education that is student-led, problem-base... more Stories & Streams is a case study in delivering media education that is student-led, problem-based and peer-to-peer. The case study focuses on an experimental programme of teaching and learning in which two groups of students have come together to collaborate towards a common purpose. The two groups of students are working towards different learning outcomes through an exploration of a shared problem space.
Students are assigned roles within teams as part of a class-wide project. As they pursue that project (‘stories’) they will encounter problems, and in attempting to solve those problems they will choose to sign up for one of 3-4 short teaching sessions (‘streams’) taught at the class’s halfway point. These ‘streams’ replace the traditional lecture-driven format, and can be delivered by students as well as tutors. In the final part of the class, students rejoin their teams and exchange learning.
This structure is being proposed as a way of addressing issues of student motivation and engagement with learning. By scheduling the project work at the start of the class and as the driver of the process, teaching is related to students’ own problem context. By requiring students to make an active choice in the learning that they experience, we push them to explicitly opt-in to their learning, and identify its relevance; by giving different students different skills – and the opportunity to host their own ‘streams’ – we are encouraging peer-to-peer teaching.
The rapid growth of online media has led to new complications in journalism ethics and practice. ... more The rapid growth of online media has led to new complications in journalism ethics and practice. While traditional ethical principles may not fundamentally change when information is disseminated online, applying them across platforms has become more challenging as new kinds of interactions develop between journalists and audiences.
In Ethics for Digital Journalists, Lawrie Zion and David Craig draw together the international expertise and experience of journalists and scholars who have all been part of the process of shaping best practices in digital journalism. Drawing on contemporary events and controversies like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Arab Spring, the authors examine emerging best practices in everything from transparency and verification to aggregation, collaboration, live blogging, tweeting and the challenges of digital narratives. At a time when questions of ethics and practice are challenged and subject to intense debate, this book is designed to provide students and practitioners with the insights and skills to realize their potential as professionals.
The idea of the journo-coder, programmer-journalist, hacker-journalist, journo-programmer (the te... more The idea of the journo-coder, programmer-journalist, hacker-journalist, journo-programmer (the terminology is undecided) is gaining ground as data journalism develops both in Britain and internationally. Programmers are coming into newsrooms, journalists are venturing further into programming and there is some blurring where the two meet. Data journalism (DJ) is certainly becoming the Big Buzz Story in the media but so far little has been written about it. This new, jargon-free text, edited by John Mair and Richard Lance Keeble (with Teodora Beleaga and Paul Bradshaw), provides an original and thought-provoking insight into DJ. The first section, with contributions from Teodora Beleaga and Simon Rogers. explores various definitions of DJ; in another, experts, such as Paul Bradshaw, Nicola Hughes, Daniel Ionescu and Pupul Chatterjee provide some useful tips on developing DJ skills. � Tom Felle interviews a group of international data journalists and finds they all argue their work can play a crucial democratic role in holding the powerful to account � Andy Dickinson wonders if the growing field of sensor journalism offers an insight into what comes next for DJ � Jacqui Taylor, Bella Hurrell and John Walton focus on data visualisations � �ndrew Rininsland argues that anyone "willing to learn D3 will find they are given an unparalleled ability to create visualisations that bring data alive" � Arthur Lashmar shows how an international consortium of journalists used DJ skills to expose the use of offshore tax havens by the world's rich and famous Other chapters are provided by Chris Frost, Liz Hannaford, Jonathan Hewett, Gabriel Keeble-Gagn�re, Damian Radcliffe, Yaneng Feng, Qian Li and John Burn-Murdoch.
With contributions by: Peter Barron, Director, External Affairs Europe, Middle East and Africa, G... more With contributions by: Peter Barron, Director, External Affairs Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google, former Editor of Newsnight Dan Bennett, PhD student, War Studies Department, King's College, London Teodora Beleaga, student at Coventry University Paul Bradshaw, Visiting Professor, City University, and Andy Brightwell, blogger Sean Carson, MA Journalism student, Coventry University Denis Chabrol, publisher and editor of Demerara Waves Kevin Charman-Anderson, former digital journalist with Guardian Online and BBC News Online Pete Clifton, Head of Editorial Development Multi-Media Journalism, BBC News Malcolm Coles, search engine optimisation consultant Neil Fowler, Guardian Research Fellow ,Nuffield College, Oxford, former Editor of the Western Mail, the Journal, Newcastle, Lincolnshire Echo and Which? Josh Halliday, Reporter, Media and Technology, The Guardian David Hayward, Head of Events, BBC College of Journalism Professor Tim Luckhurst, Head of Journalism, Kent University, former Editor of the Scotsman Kevin Marsh, Executive Editor, BBC College of Journalism, former Editor of Today, BBC Radio Four Charles Miller, Producer, BBC College of Journalism Fred Mudhai, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Coventry University Darren Parkin, Editor, Coventry Telegraph Ian Reeves, Director of Learning and Teaching at University of Kent's Centre of Journalism Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief, the Guardian and Observer Homson Shao, Associate Dean International of Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China Mike Smartt, Founder of BBC News Online Oliver Snoddy, Director, Digital Services, Doremus, New York Raymond Snoddy, Presenter of BBC NewsWatch, former Media Editor, The Times and Financial Times Vicky Taylor, Commissioning Editor, News and Current Affairs, Channel 4 Judith Townend, digital journalist, PhD student, City University, London Professor John Tulloch, Head of the School of Journalism, Lincoln University Marc Wadsworth, Editor of Citizen Journalism website The-Latest.com Joss Winn, of the Centre for Educational Research and Development, Lincoln University Peter Woodbridge, Senior Lecturer, Open Media, Coventry University Florian Zollmann in discussion with website editors David Edwards and David Cromwell
This book provides a much-needed analytical account of the implications of interactive participat... more This book provides a much-needed analytical account of the implications of interactive participation in the construction of media content. Although web journalism is a fast-changing technology this book will have sustained appeal to an international readership by seeking to critically assess Internet news production. With the rise of blogging and citizen journalism, it is a commonplace to observe that interactive participatory media are transforming the relationship between the traditional professional media and their audience. A current, popular, assumption is that the traditional flow of information from media to citizen is being reformed into a democratic dialogue between members of a community. The editors and contributors analyse and debate this assumption through international case studies that include the United Kingdom and United States. While the text has been written and designed for undergraduate and postgraduate use, the book will be of use and of interest to all those engaged in the debate over Web reporting and citizen journalism.
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people, caug... more Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people, caught up in extraordinary events, who felt compelled to adopt the role of a news reporter. This collection of twenty-one original, thought-provoking chapters investigates citizen journalism in the West, including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, as well as its development in a variety of other national contexts around the globe, including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Palestine, South Korea, Vietnam, and even Antarctica. It engages with several of the most significant topics for this important area of inquiry from fresh, challenging perspectives. Its aim is to assess the contribution of citizen journalism to crisis reporting, and to encourage new forms of dialogue and debate about how it may be improved in future.
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Whether it's hard stories from government spending and MPs' expenses, or softer stories from sports data, fashion trends or music and social activity, our increasingly digital world is providing a rich range of potential new story sources - and new forms of storytelling too.
This short ebook introduces you quickly to key techniques in finding that data and turning it into stories - through a 'Data Journalism Heist'.
This isn't about the huge investigative projects that you hear about, but the everyday stories that you can do with speed and simplicity. It's about getting in, getting the data, and getting the story out safely. No one gets hurt.
Based on a decade of training journalists and working with news organisations on data-driven stories, Finding Stories In Spreadsheets outlines the techniques for asking the right questions of data using tools like Excel and Google spreadsheets.
These aren't just questions about numbers: you'll find out how spreadsheet techniques can help you find the 'needle in the haystack' in text data. You'll learn how to clean up and modify your data so that you can ask it different questions, or get it ready for maps or charts, how to create new data from raw materials, and how to combine datasets to look for connections and trends.
With regular examples from journalism and real life data to work with, Finding Stories In Spreadsheets is *full* of those questions, in the language that spreadsheets understand.
cada uma das particularidades que distinguem o jornalismo que se faz na Web
dos que se fazem noutros meios.
Com essa finalidade foram convidados sete autores de sete países, tendo-lhes
sido pedido um capítulo sobre cada uma das sete caraterísticas.
Scraping for Journalists introduces you to a range of scraping techniques - from very simple scraping techniques which are no more complicated than a spreadsheet formula, to more complex challenges such as scraping databases or hundreds of documents. At every stage you'll see results - but you'll also be building towards more ambitious and powerful tools.
You’ll be scraping within 5 minutes of reading the first chapter - but more importantly you'll be learning key principles and techniques for dealing with scraping problems.
Unlike general books about programming languages, everything in this book has a direct application for journalism, and each principle of programming is related to their application in scraping for newsgathering. And unlike standalone guides and blog posts that cover particular tools or techniques, this book aims to give you skills that you can apply in new situations and with new tools.
Looking at the current state of the magazine market in the twenty-first century, the third edition explains how this has developed and changed in recent years, with specific attention paid to the explosion of apps, e-zines, online communities and magazine websites. Featuring case studies, interviews with successful editors, examples of covers and spreads, and useful tables and graphs, this book discusses the editor’s many roles and details the skills needed to run a publication.
This text offers comprehensive, instructive coverage of the techniques and secrets of being a successful online journalist, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. Reflecting the vitality of the web, it will inspire aspiring journalists to acquire new skills and make sense of a transforming industry.
Students are assigned roles within teams as part of a class-wide project. As they pursue that project (‘stories’) they will encounter problems, and in attempting to solve those problems they will choose to sign up for one of 3-4 short teaching sessions (‘streams’) taught at the class’s halfway point. These ‘streams’ replace the traditional lecture-driven format, and can be delivered by students as well as tutors. In the final part of the class, students rejoin their teams and exchange learning.
This structure is being proposed as a way of addressing issues of student motivation and engagement with learning. By scheduling the project work at the start of the class and as the driver of the process, teaching is related to students’ own problem context. By requiring students to make an active choice in the learning that they experience, we push them to explicitly opt-in to their learning, and identify its relevance; by giving different students different skills – and the opportunity to host their own ‘streams’ – we are encouraging peer-to-peer teaching.
In Ethics for Digital Journalists, Lawrie Zion and David Craig draw together the international expertise and experience of journalists and scholars who have all been part of the process of shaping best practices in digital journalism. Drawing on contemporary events and controversies like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Arab Spring, the authors examine emerging best practices in everything from transparency and verification to aggregation, collaboration, live blogging, tweeting and the challenges of digital narratives. At a time when questions of ethics and practice are challenged and subject to intense debate, this book is designed to provide students and practitioners with the insights and skills to realize their potential as professionals.