International Journalists’ Network: New data storytelling tool available for journalists [Asia]

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

International Journalists’ Network: New data storytelling tool available for journalists [Asia]. “Kontinentalist, a Singapore-based media that tells data stories about Asia, is launching Lapis, a no-code data storytelling tool that facilitates real-time collaboration and long-term community building, in December. The tool aims to spearhead data storytelling excellence in Asia and beyond, with support from the 2022 Google News Initiative (GNI) Challenge. Interested journalists can sign up to be one of the first on the new platform or help shape the tool as an alpha tester.”

Hong Kong Free Press: Hong Kong doxxing site targeting journalists, activists still online almost 2 years after authorities alerted

Posted on May 22, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Hong Kong Free Press: Hong Kong doxxing site targeting journalists, activists still online almost 2 years after authorities alerted. “A doxxing website targeting thousands of journalists and pro-democracy activists remains online almost two years after HKFP alerted the authorities to its existence with media enquires, and over 18 months since Hong Kong enacted an anti-doxxing law.”

WIRED: CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back

Posted on May 17, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

WIRED: CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back. “IN NOVEMBER, VENERABLE tech outlet CNET began publishing articles generated by artificial intelligence, on topics such as personal finance, that proved to be riddled with errors. Today the human members of its editorial staff have unionized, calling on their bosses to provide better conditions for workers and more transparency and accountability around the use of AI.”

Rest of World: The online repository that keeps the work of Mexico’s murdered journalists alive

Posted on May 10, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Rest of World: The online repository that keeps the work of Mexico’s murdered journalists alive. “In the past two decades, over 150 journalists have been killed in the country. Defensores de la Democracia is building a living online archive to preserve their work.”

Online Journalism Blog: What is dirty data and how do I clean it? A great big guide for data journalists

Posted on May 8, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Online Journalism Blog: What is dirty data and how do I clean it? A great big guide for data journalists. “If you’re working with data as a journalist it won’t be long before you come across the phrases ‘dirty data’ or ‘cleaning data’. The phrases cover a wide range of problems, and a variety of techniques for tackling them, so in this post I’m going to break down exactly what it is that makes data ‘dirty’, and the different cleaning strategies that a journalist might adopt in tackling them.”

Penn Today: Penn Libraries receives archive of writer, activist, and historian James G. Spady

Posted on April 6, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Penn Today: Penn Libraries receives archive of writer, activist, and historian James G. Spady. “The University of Pennsylvania Libraries recently acquired the archive of James G. Spady, a writer, historian, and activist who shed light on understudied aspects of African American history, and whose legacy and intellectual output made him a salient and influential African American figure in his own right.”

Rest of World: Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request

Posted on March 27, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Rest of World: Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request. “Twitter blocked 122 accounts belonging to journalists, authors, and politicians in India this week in response to legal requests from the Indian government.”

Washington Post: Here’s how The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon

Posted on March 24, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Washington Post Engineering: Here’s how The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon. “A small cross-disciplinary team of engineers worked together to add a feature so journalists at The Washington Post could link their Mastodon profiles from The Post’s website and verify themselves on the social network.”

BBC: How Elon Musk’s tweets unleashed a wave of hate

Posted on March 23, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

BBC: How Elon Musk’s tweets unleashed a wave of hate. “There have been hundreds of posts, many including misogynistic slurs and abusive language. There have also been threatening messages, including depictions of kidnap and hanging.”

Open records tips from a government accountability reporter: ‘Let the correspondence tell the tale’ (National Press Club Journalism Institute)

Posted on March 18, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

National Press Club Journalism Institute: Open records tips from a government accountability reporter: ‘Let the correspondence tell the tale’ . “It is Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of access to public information launched by the News Leaders Association in 2005. To commemorate the occasion, we’ve asked journalists across different beats to share their tips for requesting open records and responding when facing roadblocks to access.”

New York Times: Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists

Posted on March 18, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

New York Times: Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists. “The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app’s owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans’ data. The company said it had fired the workers involved.”

NiemanLab: The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing

Posted on March 14, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

NiemanLab: The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing. “The local newspaper industry has seen better days (though not so much in my lifetime). One growth spot, however, is where you might not expect it: Behind bars. According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory by the Prison Journalism Project, there are 24 prison-based newspapers in 12 states. At least four of the papers were launched in the last year.”

The Guardian: Unlocking the stories behind the shorthand

Posted on March 7, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Guardian: Unlocking the stories behind the shorthand. “The largest part of the collection was made up of reporter’s notebooks, chiefly written in shorthand. Sadly, a combined decade and a half as archivists in a newspaper archive had left us none the wiser when it came to reading this. When we managed to secure a precious few minutes of help from some of the Guardian’s journalists, we found out that this was Pitman New Era shorthand, not widely taught in the UK since the 1970s.”

Reuters: Reuters reporters’ online accounts faked to approach China activists

Posted on March 4, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Reuters: Reuters reporters’ online accounts faked to approach China activists. “Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage with Chinese activists on several online platforms over several months.”

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