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Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
How do you fight fake news? It’s a question I’m often asked, and as a journalist in the business for 35 years, I find it a frustrating one, because it’s often presented as if it’s a new question, and one that technology can answer. It’s…
//November 26 / 2018 //read moreData and journalism are natural bedfellows: without information we’d be lost. But has this creation of a sub-discipline that calls itself ‘data journalism’ helped or hindered the profession’s embrace of the digital era? In researching data…
//October 15 / 2018 //read moreWe are currently in a phase of seeing in blockchain, the ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the solution to problems in nearly every industry. There is something alluring about a technology that is so easy to…
//July 26 / 2018 //read moreI’ve been a nomad worker for some time. And I’m shocked at how few journalists seem to be prepared for mobile working. So I thought I’d offer a few tips. If you can afford it, buy your own equipment. I’ve been buying my own laptop…
//July 18 / 2018 //read moreTo be clear, data journalism does not replace traditional journalism, but rather complements and enhances what journalists have been doing for centuries. How to use this guide if you are a newsroom manager, editor or journalist? Is it fine…
//March 16 / 2018 //read moreWhen automobiles were invented, a carriage driver might have thought that he just needed to learn a few new tricks to be able to make the shift from the reins to the wheel. In exactly that same way, many reporters imagine that learning…
//November 8 / 2017 //read moreProbably most people sort of knew off-shore havens were being used to hide taxable fortunes, to pillage national treasuries, or to receive bribes for sold consciences. However, when the Panama Papers stories connected names to bank…
//July 26 / 2016 //read moreThe old formula of a news outlet simply providing objective news is out-of-date.
//July 22 / 2014 //read moreTow Center for Digital Journalism released an extensive report “The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism“ …
//June 9 / 2014 //read moreSix in 10 journalists say that journalism in the U.S. is going in the wrong direction.
//May 9 / 2014 //read more