Audience & Social
Sophia Smith Galer: Journalism's Rising TikTok Star
Sophia Smith Galer from BBC World Service spoke exclusively to Interhacktives about her rise in the TikTok community.
Interviews
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Interview: Michael Goodier, Reach PLC data journalist
Michael Goodier, Google News Fellow 2017, explains his role as data journalist at Reach PLC.
Audience & Social
CV writing tips to land your first journalism job
A good resumé can be the difference between landing your dream job or your application ending up in the bin. Here are Vogue's Sarah Marshall's top tips to make sure your CV stands out from the crowd.
Audience & Social
How local news organisations engage communities with social media
Social media is often viewed as the enemy of local news and for good reason: sites such as Facebook benefit enormously from being able to share journalism for free on their platform, sucking up advertising money that would previously have gone to news organisations themselves. Yet while the internet has
Interviews
This is what media innovators are doing in 2019
Get ready to take notes! This is what media innovators at the Financial Times, CNN, The Guardian and Condé Nast International are doing to push journalism forward.
Data
Local data goes big – interview with David Ottewell
David Ottewell is head of the biggest data journalism team in Britain. The Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror) data unit has been running for more than five years, with its stories published in 240 local papers, as well as national titles like the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People. Ottewell, spoke
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Alberto Cairo: To succeed in data journalism, steal from the best
Alberto Cairo thinks you can solve almost all your problems with data journalism in two steps. “Journalists,” he tells me, “in my opinion, tend to oversimplify matters quite a lot. “Let’s say that you are exploring the average height of people in an area. If you only report the
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Interview with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat
Verifying missile launchers, tracking down ISIS supporters and holding worldwide governments to account is just a day’s work for 36-year-old Eliot Higgins. Last time I met Higgins, an independent intelligence analyst, he was giving a talk about his work with Bellingcat, the investigative news network he founded
Audience & Social
BBC 'Trafficked' producers: 'VR is laid bare, you can't hide'
The idea of virtual reality isn’t new: Sega made a headset in 1991. VR as a storytelling device, however, is picking up traction in newsrooms and becoming more complex as the medium is explored. How many journalists can say they’ve had a bite of the cherry? Interhacktives spoke
Data
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Megan Lucero: it's time for data journalism to go local
Megan Lucero has seen it all. The former head of data at The Times and The Sunday Times is now directing her attention to local data journalism as the head of the Local Data Lab at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In a (second) discussion with the Interhacktives, Megan talks
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The Coral Project's Sydette Harry: ‘People feel that journalism doesn't seem to listen’
We love the Internet because it’s a treasure chest of information, and a place where we can join groups to communicate with people who share our interests, no matter how niche the subject or how scattered about the world we might be. As journalists, social media and online communities
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Interview with Louise Crow of WhatDoTheyKnow
Sending Freedom of Information (FOI) requests can be a daunting job for UK journalists. From the early stages of drafting your request, the risk of not getting the information you need can feel like a minefield. However, thanks to WhatDoTheyKnow (WDTK), this task has been made a little easier. WDTK,