Data
New to data journalism and keen to learn but unsure about the kind of stories you could uncover with numbers? Well worry not because the Interhacktives have collected the examples of experts in action so you don't have to. Here's a roundup in no particular order
Opinion
Welcome to the first Interhacktives podcast, where Zachary Boren and Daniele Palumbo argue over whether Facebook made a good move by purchasing Whatsapp, the free messaging service now used by 450m people worldwide. This was recorded on Friday afternoon, and therefore doesn't take into account the Whatsapp service
Audience & Social
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has been debating whether ‘liking’ a defamatory comment on Facebook makes you guilty of libel. To date, no one has been prosecuted specifically for ‘liking’ a statement, link or photograph posted by someone else. Last year, a judge in Virginia ruled that ‘liking’ was
How-To
Being a student puts you in touch with new resources, but it also makes you wonder how people in real newsrooms are actually using tools to reach out to readers. So I asked some of my former colleagues what are the most interesting tools they will try to use more
Audience & Social
Brazil and India don’t share much common ground. But, along with the United States, they are the top three markets for Facebook in the world. While more than 156 million Americans have already adopted Mark Zuckerberg’s creation, only recently did almost 100 million Brazilians and Indians migrate from
News
This morning the Boston Police Force accredited social media for their increase in crime solving. The Boston Police Department has seen a rise in crime solving tips thanks to social media and the department’s large Twitter following. The Boston Police Force has more than 39,200 followers on Twitter.
How-To
By Abby Young-Powell This week I have been Social Media Editor for the Hackney Post. It has been stimulating, hard work and a learning curve. Here is some of what I have learnt so far... Those who don’t know may (wrongly) assume that it’s an easy job,
News
3hundredand65 is a collaborative online storytelling project that's raising money to support the Teenage Cancer Trust by inviting contributors to "crowdauthor a graphic novel". Each day, a new writer progresses the story via a single Tweet to the organizers. Their tweet is then illustrated and added
News
The relationship between journalists and their readership has shifted massively over the past 5-10 years. It’s now increasingly common for newspapers to employ community managers to oversee their social media presence. And reporters themselves are getting stuck into the worlds of Twitter and Facebook – exploiting both as a
News
Antonia Kanczula On Friday 6 January, I was sat at my computer, as I often am, when a tweet popped up from my community website about a burglary in the area; I clicked back to the site to read more - a neighbour had seen Molly the pug being carried away
Audience & Social
From August 6th onwards one story dominated the British – and at time, global – media. Be it traditional sources; newspapers, television and radio, or modern media channels; Twitter, Facebook and blogs, it was impossible not to be excruciatingly aware of the summer’s English riots. The riots were arguably 2011’s
Audience & Social
March 2011 was the month that UK Uncut hit the headlines. Born out of the hashtag #UK Uncut which began circulating after George Osborne’s spending review in October 2010, Uk Uncut describes itself as a grassroots movement taking action to highlight alternatives to the government's spending cuts.