Media Innovation
VR journalism predictions for 2023 based on what happened in 2022
Is Meta finally going to die out & what does it mean for journalists experimenting with VR storytelling?
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News
How YouTube Shorts make audience engage?
Will YouTube Shorts get the same attention as TikTok and Reels? It is very similar to TikTok and Reels, a vertical video that automatically lets people watch one video after another. With YouTube Shorts, creators can use the Shorts camera built into the YouTube app to capture short videos and
News
What the Hack?! The Interhacktives newsletter is back
Interhacktives re-launches the newsletter with a new name and a new look
Opinion
The Rise of Conspiracy Theories is a Failure of Journalism
Endorsing a conspiracy theory can generate feeling 'special', as if one has unique knowledge.
News
A journalist's guide to the best encryption tools
Navigating the web safely in an age of data mining and state monitoring is becoming harder and harder, but there are tools out there that make it easier.
Events
Interhacktives at Mozilla Festival 2018
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, was the star speaker at Mozilla Festival 2018. He told a packed room at London’s Ravensbourne College about his latest project, Solid, an open source platform built to decentralise the web, saying it aims to
How-To
An introduction to Sina Weibo for journalists
What is Weibo? Pronounced as “way bor”, it is the Chinese word for “microblog”. And it is also the name of one of the biggest social media platforms in China. There are many microblogging sites in China, but Sina Weibo is the most popular one - it currently has more than
How-To
New to SEO? Here’s what you need to know + 4 easy hacks to get you started
What is SEO anyway? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, and knowing your way around how to optimise your content for the web can make all the difference in whether your content appears on page one or 14 on search engines. We've put together a few easy SEO
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
News
Five things we learned from The Times' Build The News
Unlike the past few years when Build the News focused on hacky concepts and newsroom tools, last weekend’s event went back to basics— telling a story. University students, under the guidance of The Times’ journalists, coders, developers and data analysts, set out to build and tell their stories in
Events
Five things we learnt from October’s Hacks/Hackers London
October’s edition of Hacks/Hackers was a bustling affair held at Twitter’s London HQ. Organised by the Wall Street Journal's Sarah Marshall, Twitter's Joanna Geary and PixieLab's Peter MacRobert, a healthy cohort of interhacktives were in attendance. Here’s what we learnt:
Data
Billy Ehrenberg on data journalism's future and the skills you need
Billy Ehrenberg, ex-Interhacktive and data journalist, has spent the last year working on new data-based projects with City A.M.'s expanding online team. I caught up with him to ask what his role involves, and what he sees as the future of data journalism. In his