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CnJ Activities

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Folks attending OSCON at the Convention Center in Portland this coming week (July 21-25, 2008) should check out Derek Gottfrid’s Birds of a Feather session on APIs and the New York Times taking place Thu, 7/24, 7pm in Room D139/140. The session comes shortly after a presentation by NPR’s Dan Jacobson, NPR: API and Open […]

NY Times features (and hires for) Computational Journalism

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Google News is the subject of a 1500-word article in the NY Times’ Technology section, At Google, Slow Growth in News Site, by Miguel Helft. Journalism 3G keynote Krishna Bharat gets quoted near the end of the piece.
Last week, for instance, a cluster of articles on gay marriages in California included those from major national […]

Wilson Miner’s Accessible Data Visualization

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Wilson Miner recently wrote a nice how-to on displaying data (even large amounts of data and/or small amounts of screen real estate) using just html markup and CSS. … http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualization
I’d first thought that Joe Gregorio’s Sparkline Generator (http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/) would kickstart widespread use of the in-line, word-size info graphs back when he introduced his webservice in […]

Post-Conference Links

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Thanks to everybody who’s continuing the conversation.

Rich Gordon’s summary and analysis of the CnJ conference Journalists and Technologists: An Uneasy Courtship landed on the sidebar of Poynter Institute’s Romanesko blog.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a new job opening for a Computational Journalist Strategic Channel Manager on journalismjobs.com
Brad Stenger’s summary of everything Info Viz at CnJ can […]

Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting & Authoring in New Media

Monday, January 14th, 2008

‘Participatory Journalism’ would have been the easy, obvious name for this panel. But nothing about getting the public involved with its news is easy or obvious. The difficulty, as our panelists will tell you, is that the interaction design requires a fine balance between information and engagement; of making the important interesting. Working in […]

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