It is yet another Carnival of Journalism (our one-year anniversary). The Carnival is a network of bloggers I reinvigorated who all write a response to a dif...

Over on Help Me Investigate Education there's a video interview with experienced journalist and campaigner Fiona Millar, who publishes ...

As part of a series of interviews for Help Me Investigate, Freedom of information (FOI) campaigner and investigative journalist Heather Brooke ...

Lorna Parsons helped answer this question, posted via the Help Me Inves'If the houses are old, he might be able to obtain details from his lo">...

Wobbing Europe reports on how one journalist used Freedom of I to obtain information that led to a government minister's resignation: ...

The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, announced last week that private emails are covered by FoI laws. This clarification in Fo The ...

I love the history of words. In highschool I had a etymology dictionary and it was something I liked to glance through to find out the Greek/ Latin roots of...

A couple of weeks ago Sion Simon tweeted about the c following ...

Although the website for the Danish investigative journalism conference is, u Highlights include the ...

Still trying to get things to repost from my Google+. So far, no luck I like that in the announcement of Janet Robinson stepping down as CEO of the NYT that ...

Stephen Grey is an investigative journalist best known recently for his reports from Afghanistan, but more widely for his investigpublished in th...

Nick Davies' piece on what police now know abou is a brilliant example of how a journalist should never cling to one story of events, and also ho...

Martin Rosenbaum is the BBC's Freedom of Information expert. As well as using FOI to find stories himself, he helps jou...

Since the last time...In Help Me Investigate Health we've had the first of the 'Who">...

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Charities and Non-profit companies have become a major part of delivering public servic">...

If you've got some data for your investigation and want to publish it - either for others to see the raw material, or to invite them to help yIf ...

Drone Journalism Lab takes reporting to the sky | The Verge This was one of the more interesting sessions at NewsFoo. It has crazy implications. It's not a q...

Here Mark Lee Hunter gives his advice if you're starting out on an investigation. Among others things: don't ask for people's secrets, come to...

If you haven't see XKCD's money chart â€" you should check it out. Beware, only venture into the chart if you have some spare time. You'll immediately want t...

Clay Shirky has a good response to Dean Starkman's piece in Columbia Journalism Review. I'll let Shirky's post speak for itself. Somehow even more important ...

Spot.Us + PIN = Rocking Spot.Us launched in November of 2008. Counting the months of planning (and applying for the Knight News Challenge) that went into the...

MySociety's Tom Steinberg and others have been compiling a list of open data and 'civic software' projects from around the world. These i You ">...

In this interview, filmed at the Global Investigative...

In a guest post for the Help Me Investigate blog, Blaz Zgaga invites other...

A recent world-wide Freedom of Information (FOI) experiment made by the Associated Press (AP) shows the appalling state that governments& The ...

In this video, filmed at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev, investigative reporter and lecturer Luuk Sengers gives h ...

Here are the latest posts across the Help Me Investigate: Networks sites on health, education, and welfare. Highlights inc">...

As media companies realize they must also become technology companies journalists are starting to immigrate into various technology communities. Thus the las...

I'm submitting my entry to this month's 'Carnival of Journalism' early â€" since I'll be traveling to present at a conference this weekend. This month our ho...

A longer version of this post first appeared on MIT's Center for Civic Media blog. In our ongoing quest to trace the outline of the phrase "civic media," we...

By Steve Fox: A couple of weeks ago I was at a hockey game with my son. During the game, as I absentmindedly checked emails on my phone, I saw a Twitter not...

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week's last look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-r...

Plus: Postmortem analysis of the SOPA/ PIPA fight, more discussion on truth vigilantes and iBooks, and the rest of the week's big stories in journalism and t...

This past weekend, I was out with a friend who happens to be a former editor at Time. We were analyzing the current state of the news media in light of recen...

So much can be said in 160 characters. As we've started to look at tailoring FrontlineSMS software for journalists, we've realized just how much potential th...

MinnPost, the nonprofit regional news site in Minnesota, ended 2011 in the black for a second year in a row, according to its annual report published today. ...

Recent calls for technologists to hire lobbyists to educate Washington on internet issues miss a significant part of the big picture. Congress makes bad tec...

The Google Analytics URL Builder is a simple tool that helps you track traffic statistics for specific campaign related links.  The tool works by adding pa...

Let's elevate, for a moment. Let's take a NASA view of the media landscape, enjoying the clear, whole-earth picture of our struggling news planet. The wide v...

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is Thursday's look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-relate...

The House of Representatives has released an agenda for its all-day Legislative Data Conference, set for February 2nd. If you are interested in attending, y...

Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media sta...

This piece was prepared in collaboration with Ethan Phelps-Goodman. In the last two decades, finance, insurance, and real estate have made many individuals ...

Write about current affairs. Add in a little commentary (or a question). And, for the love of all that is holy, include a link. Those are three of the takeaw...

When it comes to the mission of journalism, it's hard to imagine any function more fundamental than providing people with the information they need to choose...

I have new duty to add to journalists' jobs: Imagine how readers will use the information news organizations disseminate. In the past, it was enough to gathe...

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is Wednesday's look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-relat...

American Public Media's nine-year-old Public Insight Network now claims more than 130,000 sources â€" that is, ordinary folks across America who contribute t...

Yesterday evening, John reacted to President Obama's SOTU speech in which the President proposed a ban on lobbyists acting as bundlers. He criticized the p...

There's a wonderful magic wand that every member of a digital newsroom wants to get their hands on. Take control and you can work wonders, untangle the world...

By Robert Niles: So, is Apple's new iBooks Author the solution for journalists looking for a simpler way to get into the eBooks market?Nope, not even close. ...

Tonight's State of the Union Address raised even less transparency issues than we expected. (See the text at the end of this post.) President Obama called f...

LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents: Hey guys, what year was Blade Runner set in again?

I am shocked at how amazing this board game seems. (via defective yeti)

@1812PLUS200: I’m 11 tweets deep into authoring a completely ridiculous Twitter account that chronicles the War of 1812, 200 years after the fact. It’s ...

Much like the poetry I wrote in high school, I’ve classified some of my Lomo, Holga, and now Instagram-powered photography over the past, say, 12 years, ...

I always love stories about the dawn of online news. Give me more ancient histories of tie-ins to Prodigy, please. HGXN94B 4 LIFE! (via The forgotten histor...

Pinterest gains 55 percent more visitors in one month: Anyone want to take a guess as to why?

““As more work-related activities become represented on the social graph, the number of lurkers should drop dramatically, to the point where being a lurk...

The "Steenbeck" tag on Tumblr: Since we’re talking about a 16mm editing table, and Tumblr, I think most of the people using this tag are NYU Film students....

I can’t look at a picture like this one without feeling a wave of nostalgia for staying up all night in a small room with a 16mm editing table. (via HiLob...

This is a picture of Grand Central Station I made with a Canon FT and Photoshop, many years ago.  Grand Central Corner, Night

I recently read of a photographer who (still) carries a Lomo LC-A+ as their primary, durable, around-town camera. I envy this photographer. Because my firs...

A Q&A with a 'Daily News' Crime Reporter: Notes on the importance of appearance from an old-school-sounding, but not really that old crime beat reporter in N...

Can we talk about how much I love Wilco’s website in general, and the interactive pie charts with set list details in specific?

Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences: mattwaite: The number of students I have seen who are budding journalist-...

I’ve seen quite a few flawed translations of what the gentleman from the Italian Coast Guard told the cowardly captain of the cruise ship, but given my kno...

What were you doing seven years ago tonight? Odds are it was more fun than what I was doing -- which was sitting at my desk and launching this blog. ...

(via GigaPica : Wild weather grounds ship on French coast) In which I am a sucker for pictures of big boats stuck in the ocean, listing.

(via Griffin and Third Man Records team up to add vinyl to your iPhone case â€" Engadget)

As I said in a post a few weeks ago, I don't intend to blog here at the rate I once did. But as I promised in that not-quite-a-farewell post, "I won't aba...

Богородица Over at the Interchange Project Jeremy and I discuss the whole Jim Romenesko/ Poynter affair and much more this week. We think both Rome...

(Best I’ve seen so far.) peppersprayingcop: “In España, we can sit wherever we want. Unless we get bombed by warplanes. But that hasn’t happened s...

(via Miroslav Tichý | HiLobrow)

Terence Eden filmed the above video demonstrating O2′s phone security flaw. He put it on YouTube with the standard copyright licence. And someone at Sky Ne...

Here's a great test for eagle-eyed journalists, tweeted by Guardian's James Ball. It's a tale of two charts that claim to show the impact of a change in the ...

The Scotsman has a newish data blog, set up (I'm rather proud to say) by one of my former PA/ Telegraph trainees: Jennifer O'Mahoney. This is particularly i...

One of the easiest ways to get someone started on data visualisation is to introduce them to word clouds (it also demonstrates neatly how not all data is num...

This American Life host Ira Glass starts this program 'interviewing' the Siri talking interface of the latest iPhone, cleverly getting it to refuse to answer...

The hook to every song sung at Davos is 'jobs, jobs, jobs.' The chorus of machers on stages here operate under an article of faith that growth can come back,...

I'm among the disrupted of Davos. Outside, there's an #OccupyDavos encampment in igloos (really). Down the road, someone will be giving out an award to the w...

Last year I was commissioned to write a report on 'Social Media and News' for the Open Society Media Program, as part of the 'Mapping Digital Media' series. ...

Since European Commission VP Viviane Reding's proposal for internet regulation â€" under her four pillars â€" are the topic of discussion this week at DLD in...

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The conservative movement's warmaking around the 'liberal media' is a joke to the people who are actually running for president as conservatives. Data point ...

I'm at the DLD conference in Munich. Haven't live-blogged in ages. But the European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding is speaking and I disagreed with...

Streaming Dreams: YouTube turns pro Until I read that article, I didn't know YouTube started with a homemade video of a young man stating the obvious about a...

I took a detour on a trip to Europe so I could visit Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum, having become obsessed with the great man and his magnificent disruption...

Yesterday saw the launch of the first (surprisingly) international data journalism awards, backed by the European Journalism Centre*, Google, and the Global ...

The internet has helped untold publics to form. Yesterday, the internet became a public. Or rather, millions of people who care about internet freedom used ...

I'm a bit late in blogging about and urging you to read David Weinberger's new book, Too Big to Know. That's because I couldn't find my oft-underlined, much-...

I've been updating a newsroom policy guide for a project some of my students will be working on, with a particular section on objectivity and impartiality. A...

Last month you may have read the story of lobbyists editing Wikipedia entries to remove criticism of their clients and smear critics. The story was a follow-...

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The good news about the White House's response to an anti-SOPA petition is that it raised the discussion to the level of principles, arguing against 'disrupt...

Every semester I tell students in the introductory news writing class that the basics of writing in a news style will be useful in other types of writing. Ta...

An email discussion this week by members of the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication turned up lots of ref...

For the first Something For The Weekend of 2012 I want to show how to deal with a common problem when you're trying to scrape a collection of webpage: they h...

The numbers are staggering. Apple Inc. is now the most valuable company in the U.S. Th...

he best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. ...

For this month's Carnival of Journalism, Michael Rosenblum asks if a good journalist can be a good capitalist? The question is timely, given the raft of new ...

Welcome to the 35th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and D...

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. NBC News ente">...

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. ...

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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Users can't opt out of Google's ne">...

Though it's a relatively new idea, the phrase, "We're all publishers now" already has become somewhat of a cliché. Seriously. Let me Google th...

The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education journalism.1. Study: iPad is a solid education tool (Wired)">...

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. WaPo's managing editor leaves for">...

In 1900, Ladies' Home Journal published an article containing...

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app ">...

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. AP ...

A new generation of young women has begun to make their mark online, combining entrepreneurial energy with the hardwired digital fluency t Here...

Can online protests make a difference? In the past, they've had mixed success but with enough people pushing against the twin anti-piracy SOPA a...

The demise of Eastman Kodak is a story of a company which did not take on the challenges of disruptive innovation. After 133 years, the company has filed fo...

In a column, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton asked if the newspaper was innovating too fast. Pexton noted how 'hardly a week goes by without the Web...

The most popular posts for 2011 are dominated by Twitter and social media, as this has increasingly become a focus on my academic research. But the top five ...

The Nieman Journalism Lab asked me to contribute to its series looking ahead to what 2012 will bring for journalism. For my contribution, I suggested that th...

There is a seasonal theme to this month's Carnival of Journalism, hosted by The Guardian Developer blog. Journalists are being asked when would be the best ...

Watch the video of our lively discussion of the impact of social media on journalism, featuring  Liz Heron, Social Media Editor at The New York Times,Kare...

The news that mainstream media organisations use Twitter as a broadcast channel is hardly surprising. The study of Twitter feeds from 13 major news outlets ...

I’m honoured to have nominated as Canada’s top social media maven in the 2011 Digi Awards. Also up for the award are Erica Ehm, who set up the online ...

Here are the slides and audio from my presentation at the Journalism Interactive conference at the University of Maryland. The title of the talk was Share, ...

On January 19-21, the University of Michigan's Erb Institute and the Union of Concerned Scientists hosted a major summit of more than 100 social scientists, ...

Reporters still fumbling numbers in wake of pipeline's rejection

--Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE’s Science and Culture correspondent. Writer David Milch, a creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, was quoted in a talk ...

New federal database could be a boon for reporters … but it needs their input

In Monday's GOP primary debate, Newt Gingrich earned praise from conservatives while drawing justifiable anger from many for his labeling of Barack Obama as ...

With new section, David Freeman has an opportunity to raise the bar

The polarized state of American politics has once again brought speculation and claims about a rising tide of anti-science in America and an attack on reason...

-- Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science and Culture Correspondent (Twitter @fahydeclan) The media largely failed to give a measured account of its role i...

Amid 70th birthday adoration, reporters ignored their role in the physicist's celebrity

Social protest may be the most difficult type of event for journalists to cover, especially when the protest offers few visible leaders or concrete policy go...

A closer look at the quantity of climate coverage in 2011

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of research from the social and behavioral sciences offering insight on how individuals, social groups and ...

--Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent and Filmmaker. Nothing changes on New Year's Day? U2's Bono had it right – at least when it...

Downward spiral in English-language news media continued in 2011

--Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science & Culture correspondent Richard Dawkins guest-edited the Christmas edition of British left-wing politics and cultu...

Labeling coffee as "fair trade" can boost sales by 10%, finds a recent study. The findings shed light on the rapid growth of the fair trade and organic marke...

From extreme weather to the crisis in Japan, Curtis Brainard picks the top CJR stories from the past year

Coverage of permafrost melt creates confusion about level of worry

Nature calls on scientists to 'fight agenda-driving reporting'

Voyeuristic sex-addiction cover misses an important debate

News outlets rely on the masses for public health stories

Why UN climate summits like the one in Durban are challenging, but worth covering

Discovery Channel reverses course following wave of criticism, but what will viewers get?

Consumer Reports confirms arsenic-in-apple-juice investigation

Innovation Trail and other New York outlets help readers prepare for fracking prospectors