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Love data? Ever wondered what a data journalist actually does? Just want free booze? The Interhacktives are pleased to announce TWO upcoming events this April that will satisfy either or both of these needs. Brace yourselves. The sessions will be focused on giving you some data skills you can use
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From today, we are accepting entries for our competition to by published by Ampp3d: the Daily Mirror's experimental site for data visualisation. Create a mobile visualisation Entrants are invited to create a mobile-friendly data visualisation reflecting a current news story, with the winner having their visualisation published
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Ampp3d's Martin Belam tells us what makes a winning data visualisation. What Ampp3d’s about There have been a couple of things at the heart of what we are trying to do with Ampp3d. First of all we are trying to answer the question: What does “data journalism”
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Want to get paid for a data journalism story. Enter our competition and you could be featured on Ampp3d...
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Here's how the Interhacktives got on at The TImes' "Build The News" competition
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Week two of editing IslingtonNow's social media channels fell to me, Andrew. I explained about it in a bit of detail in an audioboo, posted whilst I was out doing more stories for the website. One thing I can say for definite is that it was a very
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Download 672498-interhacktives-boo-3-interhacktives.mp3?keyed=true& Today's Audioboo giving us a roundup on Interhacktives is here. Recorded by Andrew Stuart, it's recorded at Spa Fields. Enjoy it! Interhacktives boo 3! @interhacktives (mp3) Enjoy, comment and post a reply audioboo. Andrew.
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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
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Neha-Tamara Patel Two days ago, the chairman of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger, gave a talk at Journalism and society think tank POLIS based at LSE, on the continuing digital transformation of the New York Times. [Full text can be found here: http://bit.ly/vtRf3H] In his
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Abby Young-Powell 1. ACCOUNTABILITY – We will correct mistakes and amend them transparently. We will verify sources and link to them where appropriate. 2. TONE/STYLE –We will always write clearly, but will be open to different styles and voices. We will write names correctly and take special care with
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Antonia Kanczula On our little Interhacktives blog, we're going to chatter - at length - about the wide, diverse and far-reaching tentacles of social media. In essence, the big stuff. But we also thought we'd shine a light on the off-beat stories of online connectedness - and