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Despite numerous technological innovations — from 360-degree video to social media live-streaming to robot journalists — the trusty old email seems to be increasing in importance in the newsroom. Quartz, for instance, has several journalists based across the world work on its daily newsletter, which releases at about 6am across
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As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told investors of his ‘video first’ strategy, content creators are trying to find ways to optimise their video output and attract larger followings. Social video has been around for many years but is now considered the dominant vessel for consumption on social media. Last year,
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What's a pirate's favourite programming language and statistical computing environment? Why, it’s R, of course. Jokes aside, R is the language of choice for data miners, scrapers and visualisers - as well as journalists looking to manipulate datasets that Excel just can’t handle. R can
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As most digital journalists know, Snapchat is a vast and in some ways underutilised tool. Snapchat claims to have over 8 billion users per day - an eye watering number compared to the 2 billion they had only last May. Snapchat has created the Discover channel on their app. These are
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By 2019, 80% of all internet traffic will be for video – the online world is far from being only about text and images. One of the most interesting new strands of this video revolution is live-streaming: it offers a unique level of intimacy and immediacy to users. But what
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Facebook can be a very valuable tool for traffic for many websites, and mastering an online presence on the social platform is often the difference between life and death of a publication. Recently, Facebook's algorithm has been modified to promote visual content, such as pictures and videos, over
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Why live tweet? Share: If you’re interested in an event you’re attending, the chances are that others who can’t make it or don’t already know about it will be interested too. Live tweet to give them an insight into the best bits of what’s being
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Want to know how to create a timeline like this for your website? Timeline JS is a useful, easy and open-source tool that enables you to build visually rich, interactive personal timelines. If you are a beginner, you can create a timeline using a Google spreadsheet. 1. STEP ONE
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I created this (blog?) for myself so I can keep on top of Excel. I am going to add to it throughout the year when I learn new functions. Excel might not look like the friendliest of Microsoft programmes but it is important for every journalist to understand. I think
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Warning: This how-to is for Mac users, since it provides information on installing Mac OS X apps. Windows is quite similar though, you'll have to google. What is GitHub? GitHub is a platform for hosting and collaborating on projects. Say you want to create a cool handmade
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The General Election is the most important media event of the year. Its a chance to earn your stripes as a journalist and get some page leads in your portfolio. This was the thought I had last week when I was on work experience with the Times' Redbox supplement.
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This article was published in 2015 and refers to that year's application for the Telegraph Grad Scheme. But it's still worth reading if you are planning to apply for The Telegraph 2019 Editorial Graduate Programme! This time a few months ago, I was spending hours anxiously