Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live – and generates its first...
TweetView Birmingham’s parking ticket hotspots in a larger map Today the Birmingham Post publishes the first story to come out of the crowdsourcing platform I’ve been creating - Help Me Investigate....
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Why it pays to respond to your comments
TweetThis story was originally published at Poynter. Republished here for archiving purposes. Newspapers take a lot of flak when they or mis-attribute or fail to acknowledge the work of bloggers and...
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Local newspaper data journalism – school admissions in Birmingham
Tweet The Birmingham Mail has been trying its hand at data journalism with school admissions data. It’s a good place to start - the topic attracts a lot of interest (and so justifies the investment of...
View ArticleCCTV spending by councils/how many police officers would that pay? –...
TweetNews organisations across the country will today be running stories based on a report by Big Brother Watch into the amount spent on CCTV surveillance by local authorities (PDF). The treatment of...
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Notes on setting up a regional newspaper datablog
Tweet I’ve been working recently with the Birmingham Mail to launch Behind The Numbers, a new datablog project with Birmingham City University supported by Help Me Investigate. I’m told that it is...
View ArticleFree ebook: Citizen Video – training and engaging citizens in video journalism
TweetVideographer Franzi Baehrle has published an ebook documenting lessons in delivering video training to non-journalists. The ebook was part of her final project for the MA Online Journalism at...
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Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Ross Hawkes, Lichfield Live
Tweet If a week is a long time in politics, then three years is a very long time in hyperlocal. With that in mind we thought it would be interesting to revisit sites we covered when this feature first...
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Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live – and generates its first...
View Birmingham’s parking ticket hotspots in a larger map Today the Birmingham Post publishes the first story to come out of the crowdsourcing platform I’ve been creating - Help Me Investigate. It’s...
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Why it pays to respond to your comments
This story was originally published at Poynter. Republished here for archiving purposes. Newspapers take a lot of flak when they or mis-attribute or fail to acknowledge the work of bloggers and members...
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Local newspaper data journalism – school admissions in Birmingham
The Birmingham Mail has been trying its hand at data journalism with school admissions data. It’s a good place to start - the topic attracts a lot of interest (and so justifies the investment of time)...
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CCTV spending by councils/how many police officers would that pay? –...
News organisations across the country will today be running stories based on a report by Big Brother Watch into the amount spent on CCTV surveillance by local authorities (PDF). The treatment of this...
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Notes on setting up a regional newspaper datablog
I’ve been working recently with the Birmingham Mail to launch Behind The Numbers, a new datablog project with Birmingham City University supported by Help Me Investigate. I’m told that it is probably...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free ebook: Citizen Video – training and engaging citizens in video journalism
Videographer Franzi Baehrle has published an ebook documenting lessons in delivering video training to non-journalists. The ebook was part of her final project for the MA Online Journalism at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Ross Hawkes, Lichfield Live
If a week is a long time in politics, then three years is a very long time in hyperlocal. With that in mind we thought it would be interesting to revisit sites we covered when this feature first...
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Can you help map local data blogs?
This week Matt Burgess launched the Northampton Data Blog, “exploring the data behind the headlines in Northamptonshire”. The site is at least the fourth local data blog to be launched this year after...
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Birmingham Mail uses social media ‘Thunderclap’ to mark pub bombing...
The Birmingham Mail is to invite its readers and followers to sign up today to a week-long experiment with the ‘crowdspeaking’ platform Thunderclap. Thunderclap, launched in 2012, allows users to sign...
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Stop being a snob: 10 ways hyperlocal media is contributing to UK journalism
Image by Nicky Getgood In a guest post, Damian Radcliffe says that hyperlocal sites are being held back by regional newspaper snobbery, while he gives 10 reasons why hyperlocal should be recognised as...
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Forget adblockers – one local newspaper site has inspired a ‘content blocker’
The Evening Mail News Blocker is available in the Chrome Web Store What we need in the adblocking debate is a fresh perspective. Cue Birmingham website Paradise Circus, which has today released a...
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