Teaching Journalism
Apr 24, 2013
- Posted by Tamara
Baluja
Apr 24, 2013
- Posted by Tamara
Baluja
Apr 23, 2013
- Posted by Tamara
Baluja
Global News data desk journalist Patrick Cain outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools: Google Fusion tables, NodeXL, Scapetoad, JQuery Data Tables, and Tableau Public.
Apr 23, 2012
- Posted by Belinda
Alzner
New for your reporter toolkit is code that will allow you to make data visualizations just like The Guardian.
Oct 24, 2008
- Posted by Fred
Vallance-Jones
Election nights are great for journalism, but they turn out to be great for journalism instructors as well. Second-year students at the University of King's College covered the October 14, 2008 election live as a class project. CAR contributing editor Fred Vallance-Jones explains how he put the coverage together. See the class website site here and click below to read more.
Feb 21, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
A select list of links from the Investigative Reporters and Editors to some of the best courses in computer-assisted and investigative reporting.
Feb 21, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
An article, from the Poynter Institute, about how computer-assisted reporting enriches newspaper stories.
Feb 21, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
A broad collection of links to a variety of university-level computer-assisted reporting courses.
Sep 20, 2006
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
CARinCanada is a website where Canadian journalists can learn about computer-assisted reporting in Canada, and get weekly tips to help them use spreadsheets and databases in their reporting. The site is maintained by Fred Vallance-Jones, a reporter at the Hamilton Specator, part-time instructor at the University of King's College, and a veteran user of computer-assisted reporting techniques. He also edits J-Source's CAR J-Topic.
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