Source is a much-deserved pat on the back for journalists using code to tell the news.
A ScribbleLive client, the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project created the site and launched it in late October. According to this article, the director of the project, Dan Sinker, said on MediaShift Idea Lab, that “the site would combine ‘in-depth articles that dig into the hows, whys and whos of journalistic development with an index of open news code repositories.’” (more…)
News organizations have to disrupt newsrooms to survive. At least, that’s the stance three authors are taking in their Nieman Reports article. (more…)
Lewis DVorkin earned his journalism degree in 1974 – an age when he self-admittedly aspired to be a “newspaperman.” But now, he’s recognizing the changing journalism world. He’s changing the way mega-news-organization Forbes operates to help it thrive in the digital age.
Forbes’ new model, DVorkin writes in his e-book book The Forbes Model for Journalism in the Digital Age, hinges on “listening and engaging with news consumers.”
DVorkin recognized that digital audiences want lots of news. So, Forbes employed content creators who “turn out thousands of posts – nearly 100,000 in 2011.” Now, that’s a lot of news! (more…)
This week our clients witnessed the arrival of the iPad Mini, chatted about the Lance Armstrong controversy, learned about their financial futures, watched the news in North Wales, and viewed the final debate between Mitt Romney and U.S. President Barack Obama. (more…)
ScribbleLive clients are using a great online, document storage system: DocumentCloud.
The most amazing thing about DocumentCloud is that it has a public catalogue of documents and focuses a lot of its energy on opensource work, allowing users to collaborate their efforts – and that’s what ScribbleLive is all about too with ideas like our Syndication Marketplace.
How are today’s newsrooms different from those of the past? Watch the film below, which starts to explain “beats” about two minutes in. These beats are areas ”which [reporters] cover day after day,” says the video’s narrator.
But, what if, today’s newsrooms eliminated beat reporting? What would happen then? (more…)
Data-mining. Pivot tables. Computer-assisted reporting. Tableau Software wants to make even the most spreadsheet-fearing person a visualization whiz.
Tableau is ”a platform for interactive data visualization and online storytelling,” explains an introductory video on the company’s website. Its easy-to-use features allow people – from journalists to business executives – to take otherwise seemingly uninteresting data and “bring it to life for people.”
One of its cooler features is the “Show Me” button. After users import their data, they can click “Show Me” to see their records visualized in different ways!
Also cool? The visualizations can be embedded into ScribbleLive liveblogs so you can get even more use out of your infographics.
Lots of ScribbleLive clients have been making great use of this feature – especially in newsrooms! (more…)
After a few minutes on the Meograph website, I fell in love with this product. It’s an interactive, video timeline of events. Their tagline – easily create interactive stories – could not be more true. And the best part? You can embed your final product right into a ScribbleLive liveblog!
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Sports are meant to be consumed in real time. Watching a sports game is also an innately social activity, which is why we flock to stadiums by the thousands to see the game unfold. Although we can’t all watch the game in person, we can still watch in a social manner from the comfort of home.
The Online News Association, a nonprofit membership organization for digital journalists, published a very interesting post last week by data journalist and web producer Lucas Timmons. Lucas works at The Edmonton Journal in Alberta, Canada and wrote a piece titled “A Manifesto for a digital sports section”. His piece for ONA touches on several important points with regards to digital sports reporting, including engagement, interactivity, automation, and refocus—check it out for tips for providing real-time content to your audience. (more…)
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