News
The war in Ukraine: what has been the best social media coverage?
The war in Ukraine has seen a lot of coverage on social media. But what has it shown us about how social media can be used in war reporting?
BBC
Data
How to create BBC-style graphics with R: A bbplot tutorial
Core R is an incredible tool to manage data and can produce satisfactory data visualisations. But what if you want more control?
News
Going Viral with Brexit and Mr. Blobby – interview with the BBC's Chris Mason
The BBC’s Political Correspondent Chris Mason tells us about the Mr Blobby incident and going viral.
Audience & Social
Anatomy of a Twitter thread: is long-form tweeting great for journalism?
Twitter is often linked to journalism for two reasons. Firstly, its real-time nature makes it a perfect place to discover breaking news. Secondly, well, it is full of journalists. However, Twitter has been trying for a while to go over real-time and quick conversations. One of its biggest
Audience & Social
What WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption means for journalism and how to use app
The last time I checked, WhatsApp was not one of the most popular social media apps among journalists. It was trailing Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, and Line by far. Many a journalist have written off this chat app with a disputed 800 million monthly active users after efforts to broadcast through
Events
City hosts BBC News Labs’ University Challenges
The first City University London Hackathon will take place this weekend as part of the BBC News Labs’ University Challenges. Organised by BBC News Labs & Connected Studio in collaboration with City, the event brings together 23 participants from the university’s Journalism and Computer Science programmes. The goal, according
News
BBC on the WWW: the website from 1996 to now
We decided to take a look through the Wayback Machine tool to watch the evolution of the Beeb online. The machine is a neat tool that has archived 445 billion web pages. On the 21st December, 1996, John Major was Prime Minister; Mars Attacks, 101 Dalmatians and the English Patient
Audience & Social
Interview with Kerry Alexandra, BBC UGC producer
Kerry Alexandra is a User Generated Content (UGC) Producer at the BBC. She told Interhacktives about how UGC is the new frontline of news, and how quickly her work can change – from looking at users' snow photos for a picture gallery one moment to verifying severed heads the next.
News
Interview with Jeremy Tarling, BBC senior data architect
Interhacktives sat down with Jeremy Tarling, senior data architect for the BBC, to find out what the world’s premier news organisation is doing in digital innovation. What actually is a data architect? To be frank, I think it's a job title the BBC created. It's
Events
Interhacktives Live Blog @ ONA Need for Speed
This afternoon from 5 PM, Interhacktives will live blog from the Online News Association discussion and networking event of 2014. Journalists and guest speakers will discuss how digital journalists and editors juggle the need for speed and the need for accurate reporting and verification. In this hour-long session and
News
Who did it best? Data coverage of the 2013 local elections
Yesterday the final results were in for Thursday’s 2013 council elections, and true to form some of the biggest media publications were not content with simply stating by numbers which councils had won or lost seats (à la the less than inspiring Independent and Spectator’s election results run-
Data
Data Journalism Awards 2013 Shortlist Released
I blogged earlier in the year on the 2013 Data Journalism Awards and promised to keep you posted, and can now reveal that the shortlist has been announced. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, The Global Editors Network announced their 72 finalists, with the shortlisted candidates representing 19