We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today it’s aggregated news laid out across interactive city maps with Everyblock. 1) Who are you and what’s it all about? I’m Adrian Holovaty. EveryBlock is an experiment in […]
Michael Amedeo on why he likes it – raw data, finds and displays info from gov, geo-relevant news, local – and how it’s an opportune and necessary site.
Updated 05/08/2010 Recent industry lists ranking the great and good in journalism and the media fell a bit short of the mark for Journalism.co.uk. Where were the online innovators? Where were the journalists on the ground outside of the executives’ offices? So we’ve compiled our own rundown listing those people we think are helping to […]
On Wednesday (September 9), Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University and founder of HelpMeInvestigate.com, chaired a discussion on data and the future of journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. This post originally appeared on the OnlineJournalismBlog. The panel included: Martin Belam (information architect, the Guardian; blogger, Currybet; John O’Donovan […]
The influence of UK-based democracy organisation, mySociety, often gets forgotten, perhaps deliberately downplayed, in the British press. Let’s go back to the MP expenses row, for example. Well before the Telegraph played its central role in exposing the various scandals, mySociety saw a significant campaign victory when Gordon Brown U-turned on an attempt to keep […]
One of the more influential figures in British journalism – Alan Rusbridger the editor-in-chief of the Guardian and the Observer discussed his ‘why journalism matters’ at a star studded Media Standards Trust event at the British Academy last night. His audience included Lord Puttnam, Robert Peston, Roger Graef, Bill Hagerty, Felicity Green and Nick Cohen. […]
Article rounding-up the state of several hyperlocal news start-ups in the US, including Everyblock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch. Such sites face an advertising paradox, suggests the article: they offer more targeted readers to advertisers, but fewer of them. Full article at this link…
News reaches us from blogger Brownstoner about the New York Times’ plans to launch a series of neighbourhood blogs – starting with two test sites for the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill areas. Each site will be headed by a New York Times staffer as editor, but contributions from the public, in particular from CUNY’s […]
The Bivings Group‘s recently released Bivings Report of the top 10 US newspaper sites in 2008 consisted of: New York Times Washington Post Wall Street Journal Florida Times-Union Philadelphia Inquirer USA Today St Paul Pioneer Press Atlanta Journal-Constitution Arizona Republic Columbus Dispatch The study, which picks the list based on usability, design and web features […]
EveryBlock is aiming for coverage at micro not hyperlocal level, says Holovaty.
“Micro implies intense focus, incredibly small scale and rich depth,” he says.