I’ve been out of the daily reporting loop for months now as I fill in as an editor, but I have been involved in one cool project. One of my reporters is now in the Dominican Republic reporting a project on the destruction caused earlier in the month by Hurricane Noel. While she’s there (without […]
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the bleak future of journalism in general and of newspapers in particular.
There are two skills that I believe are now indispensable in the field. Any journalist who won’t begin to embrace them is simply not ready for the future of the business. What are they? […]
From the shameless self-promotion department, here’s a couple of nice stories we ran this weekend that I had a hand in.
For the past couple of months, I’ve been editing full-time, so I haven’t had a lot of bylines of late. But my latest project, which I put together in conjunction with our intrepid cops reporter, […]
A friend just alerted me to Kirix Strata, a Web browser that will let you work with raw data as you see it on your favorite Web pages. You can easily manipulate html tables or create mash-ups with RSS feeds. This is an intriguing idea. I wonder if, like Swivel (another new-fangled Internet contraption I […]
It seems the Internet has done as much for amateur cartographers as it has for budding pornographers.
As I promised earlier, I have a few resources to share on mapping, particularly of the Google Maps variety. I had actually been planning on posting this for the last few days, when I noticed this mention the Analytic […]
Amidst the shock and tragedy of last week’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis, journalists around the country embraced the power of computer-assisted reporting to enhance their reporting. One such reporter compiled a cool list of many of the great stories they produced.
Some of the praise for this response is owed to IRE and its database library. […]
