Our industry of "news application development" is still in its infancy. As I'm given the freedom to reinvent how we do news apps over at PBS News, I'm relying heavily on staying plugged in to what's going on elsewhere in the community. What have people done so far? How is it going? What have they learned? How does my experience differ from theirs? Luckily, I count many of these colleagues among my friends, and we continually learn from each other Read More...
Nothing too groundbreaking here, if you're a coder, but this was interesting to me in my coding development. This weekend, I pounded away at the Document Cloud API, experimenting with how we might integrate it into our continually-developing workflow at PBS News. This taught me a) the DC folks have some of the clearest documentation I've ever seen, b) the DC folks are really responsive to requests, as in they added created and modified dates to the API less than two hours after I requested it, c) Don't make test documents public, esp Read More...
Warning: This will be long, and sappy, and sentimental, and all things cliche. But, hopefully, it's still uplifting and interesting. My "summer" internship at the LA Times is almost over. It's lasted from April until now, and I could stay longer. I swore you'd have to drag me out of "dream internship" kicking and screaming, as I clung to the massive walls of the still-impressive building Read More...
Story of my life: This is a few weeks overdue. Launched a new app at the beginning of this month, tracking Prop 19 campaign contributions, which you can see at http://projects.latimes.com/prop19 (more...)
Despite being months out of school, I'm still relatively obsessed with teaching and learning. That's part of what makes journalism these days fun -- we learn about our subject matters, and we learn new tools for information display. But the training of new journos has a special place in my heart. Every day, I benefit from the teachers in my life at the LAT, and elsewhere in the community Read More...
UPDATE: More later, but if you missed the geekery and fantastic exchange of knowledge that you get with a phenomenally sharp, inquisitive and dedicated group like the #wjchatters, you can find the transcript here. Tomorrow, Wed. Sept. 8, we'll be discussing "Finding the story in the data" at #wjchat, and I have been tapped to host Read More...
My days continue to putter along at the delightful dream job that is working at the LAT Data Desk. Some work is public-facing, a lot is internal to the LAT, but it's always a learning experience. Recently, I had the opportunity (okay, was tasked with) getting some information out of our archives into a database structure Read More...
http://projects.latimes.com/prop8 So, there's that. First launch! My checklist: Figure out what part of journalism inspires me. CHECK (Data, programming) Find place where I can learn about it from others, but have freedom to try out my ideas and learn from knowledgeable and patient folks Read More...
The last Data Delver I have on tap is Andy Boyle. If you're in the online journalism sphere on Twitter, you know this name, or at least, @andymboyle. But let's say you don't. If I introduce him as a reporter, that's not the full picture. A developer? That's not it either. Web-savvy journo? Still, nope Read More...
We've been retweeting it and raving about it all day in the data community - Columbia has made a big, big step forward in data journalism education by offering a new joint masters in journalism and computer science. We can add modules to existing curricula all we want, but this is a giant leap. There is a subset of journalists who need to learn to code Read More...
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