By Mindy McAdams
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While I was shamelessly picking the brain of Matt Waite in recent weeks, he advised me that if I don’t have more than three to five weeks to spend on “data” (sort of akin to what we used to call “computer-assisted reporting”), what I should focus on is teaching the students something about data visualization.
So [...]
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Matt Waite’s approach to data-driven journalism. After I posted, Matt sent me an e-mail with some additional information, and I asked him if I could publish it here. He said yes.
Back in “the Paleolithic era of our Web site,” he wrote (meaning 2004), the St. Petersburg (Fla.) [...]
Learn a Web framework, Matt Waite urged my journalism students on Tuesday. He recommended either Django or Ruby on Rails, and he characterized arguments over which one is better as “nerd Pepsi vs. Coke.”
Matt is the concept and programming brains behind both Neighborhood Watch ( “porn” for middle-class homeowners in a couple of Florida counties) [...]
The format for networked reporting doesn’t exist yet, but I’ve been thinking about it in terms of how comments manifest public opinion (as well as an ugly underbelly of hate).
Networked reporting, as Charlie Beckett sees it, is a collaboration between the public and the journalists. It’s not the same as citizen or civic or public [...]
I’ve been asked dozens of times, “What do you use to record phone interviews?” My answer: A device I bought at Radio Shack for about $20 many years ago. This plugs into both the phone line (at the wall jack) and any recording device with a mini-jack. It records both speakers at an equal volume [...]
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program has been called the Pulitzer Prizes of (U.S.) student journalism. I can’t say whether that is an exaggeration, but the awards do come with generous money prizes for the individual students and the schools they attend. Journalism educators generally agree on the prestige of the Hearst awards.
I was looking at [...]
On Tuesday I had a pair of guest speakers — Melissa Lyttle (photojournalist) and Lane DeGregory (reporter) — talk about how they reported The Girl in the Window for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. My course is Reporting and Writing for Online Media (syllabus here), but I told our guests I [...]
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