News
Day 2 And the winners are.... And that's a wrap! The presentations have been made, the winners have been crowned and we are bidding a fond farewell to Build the News 3. For the Interhacktives it has been our last opportunity to compete in the event as students.
How-To
CartoDB logo Knowing how to create interactive maps can be a very useful skill for a data journalist, and there is an easy, free online tool that allows you to do just that. From election results to cycling accidents, CartoDB allows you to make many clean-looking visualisations with your
Data
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. At least that’s how the saying goes and how the wider public feel, for some reason people tend to distrust something with numbers backing it more than if it doesn’t. Well that’s just completely wrong, but the problem is that numbers can
Data
Ever wanted to scrape something with OutWit Hub but the data you want is tied up in ugly HTML tags that change with each new piece of information? Regular expressions - known as regex - are often an easy way of getting around them. These are sequences of symbols and characters which
Data
When most people think of drones, they’ll probably think of the flying machines that hail indiscriminate death down across the Middle East. But not Ben Kreimer. For him they are a way of seeing the world in a new and exciting light, and occasionally for doing a bit of
Events
Postgraduate and job application deadlines are drawing near. Maybe you've already got an interview or a place at a newspaper lined up and want to be a bit more prepared. Maybe you're embarking on a year of freelancing and want the best advice. Whatever your reason,
Audience & Social
If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably noticed the trending hashtag #AdviceForYoungJournalists, which was sparked off by a bitingly cynical blog post from financial journalist Felix Salmon. His advice to young wannabe journalists contacting him for guidance is this: don't become journalists. At least, not if you
Audience & Social
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don't just affect local newspapers, but it hits them worse. So why have I written a social media style guide principally aimed at locals? Because, generally, they have fewer resources to invest in their social
News
Since Alan Rusbridger announced on Twitter that he will be stepping down as The Guardian's editor-in-chief, speculation about his replacement has been rife. The search for its new editor has been going on for about a month. Will step down as editor in chief of the
Audience & Social
Lies, damned lies and statistics - everyone knows this famously pithy quote often attributed to 19th century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. In the social media world though, it’s statistics that are king. There are lots of free tools you can use to measure social networking success. Here is a
Audience & Social
Snapchat has launched its Discover platform - a new way to present stories to target its young, casual audience. Mail Online, Vice and Yahoo! News are just some of the nine media organisations partnering up with Snapchat in this venture to tell stories in new ways to entice its users. It
Data
It was over donuts and sushi that Interhacktives found out more about corporate networks and how to access company data. Last Wednesday, a pack of 13 of us attended the meetup "Flash Hacks: Map the Banks", an initiative by the London-based organisation Open Corporates that aims to