Audience & Social
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don't just affect local newspapers, but it hits them worse. So why have I written a social media style guide principally aimed at locals? Because, generally, they have fewer resources to invest in their social
Audience & Social
Lies, damned lies and statistics - everyone knows this famously pithy quote often attributed to 19th century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. In the social media world though, it’s statistics that are king. There are lots of free tools you can use to measure social networking success. Here is a
Audience & Social
Snapchat has launched its Discover platform - a new way to present stories to target its young, casual audience. Mail Online, Vice and Yahoo! News are just some of the nine media organisations partnering up with Snapchat in this venture to tell stories in new ways to entice its users. It
Audience & Social
Throughout most of its ten-year history, people have been threatening to leave Facebook. There are plenty of good reasons for doing it, from Facebook’s constantly mutating privacy policies to its decision to turn users into test subjects without their knowledge or consent. A few months ago, Facebook came
Audience & Social
I wrote a tweet. I say ‘wrote’. There were no words, just four images. The first three were screenshots of the possession statistic during the 24th minute of the Scotland v England international match. The other was of Alex Salmond’s face. The Process It is, of course, a joke
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
News
Read our live blog of PMQs on 30 April 2014. It was a barnstorming session, featuring the Speaker at his wittiest.
Audience & Social
Kerry Alexandra is a User Generated Content (UGC) Producer at the BBC. She told Interhacktives about how UGC is the new frontline of news, and how quickly her work can change – from looking at users' snow photos for a picture gallery one moment to verifying severed heads the next.
Audience & Social
Taking ideas from Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, The News Hub is taking a new approach to harnessing the power of the internet for journalism...
Audience & Social
Our tutorial on data journalism will start at 6pm today (Monday 24th March) – click here for the link. To see last week's tutorial on social media verification, click here. The time for our first hour of Interhacktivity is almost upon us. The tutorials will be held via a
Audience & Social
If you've ever wondered what it takes to become a modern day journalist with a wide set of skills in terms of data and social, Interhacktives are here to assist you. We are going to share the knowledge we gained during the course of this year during two
Audience & Social
Each week, thousands of runners and cyclists will use Strava app to race against each other. Billy Ehrenberg looks at how they curated a community built on competition...