Simon Willison’s Weblog

The quality of (US) journalism. Just wow.

# 2nd August 2008, 8:27 am / journalism, rafecolburn

Google apps for your newsroom. How the LJ World team use online tools like Google Spreadsheet, Swivel, ManyEyes and Google MyMaps to collaborate with the newsroom and build data-heavy applications even faster.

# 7th January 2008, 9:24 pm / news, journalism, ljworld, django, manyeyes, google, mymaps, google-maps, google-calendar, google-docs, newsroom, collaboration, matt-croydon

journa-list.com. Fantastic new site that indexes UK news stories by the person who wrote them. Being able to track a journalist’s output like this makes it much easier to figure out their personal biases over time.

# 11th October 2007, 4:04 pm / news, journalism, journalist

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site. The New York Times finally acknowledges that you can’t be the “paper of record” if no one can link to you.

# 18th September 2007, 8:40 am / news, new-york-times, journalism

Making the “24-hour newsroom” work (via) More on the Lawrence Journal-World, this time from the point of view of the reporters in the newsroom.

# 16th June 2007, 12:27 am / ljworld, journalism, newspapers, lawrence

10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head (via) A great list, with a positive conclusion.

# 9th June 2007, 5:36 pm / journalism, ryan-sholin, jon-udell, newspapers

Journalistic jargon (via) Seeing as I work for a newspaper now, this site is indispensable

# 21st December 2003, 11:04 pm / journalism