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James Ball is a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations team, which he joined after working for Wikileaks and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He is the Washington Post Laurence Stern Fellow for 2012 and visiting lecturer at City University London for the Interactive Journalism course. I interviewed him
How-To
On the weekend of June 23, nearly a hundred thousand people will descend upon the Hackney Marshes for BBC Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend music festival. Big names such as Jay-Z, Rihanna, Florence + The Machine, Jessie J, Deadmau5 and David Guetta have been booked for the free, two-day
Audience & Social
Breaking news on Twitter is not something that's new, but it is now being seemingly regulated by the powers-that-be at Sky News and the BBC News operations. Sky News had an email leaked on Tuesday evening concerning Twitter, in which it stated, according to The Guardian,
Audience & Social
It was meant to be a silent victory in the War on Terror. A carefully managed assassination of the world’s most wanted terrorist, an operation on Pakistani soil by a squad of US SEALs that Pakistan wasn’t meant to know about until after the event. Osama Bin Laden
Audience & Social
February 2011 was the month of the domino effect. Following on from the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, social media was flooded with calls for protests in Middle Eastern counties including Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain and Libya. The internet's influence was evidenced by the increasing reliance of mainstream