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2009

#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation. Journalism.co.uk report on the first instance of a Guardian story that was driven by an external developer’s work with data originally released on our Datablog.

# 9th April 2009, 10:57 am / openplatform, guardian, datablog, datastore, journalism, data-journalism

A few notes on the Guardian Open Platform

This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open.

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Learning to Think Like A Programmer. Outstanding advice aimed mainly at journalists, but important to anyone who collects information for a living and might want it to be automatically processed at some point in the future.

# 22nd January 2009, 6:06 pm / tom-armitage, programming, journalism, data-journalism

2008

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, data-journalism

2007

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

2003

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

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