Some great comments coming out of the New York Times’ hack day, Times Open. Follow the twitter chatter below: paul_houle: #timesopen Article Search API currently provides access to the last 28 years of content from the times paul_houle: #timesopen Article Search API currently provides access t...

It was with some astonishment that I read the following comment from the chair of the UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) professional training committee, Chris Wheal, on Adam Tinworth’s blog: “The NUJ fails to maintain standards in blogs because bloggers themselves rejoice in...

Hadn’t come across this before, so thought I’d share this map form the BBC showing the most popular news stories on the BBC News website: The map can be filtered by continent (and the UK) to show the top 10 ‘most popular’ and ‘most emailed’ BBC News articles. Ther...

Mark S. Luckie and the fantastic 10,000 Words blog now bring us journalism-is-dead.com - ‘a collection of alarmist, bombastic and otherwise humorous quotes’ about the demise of journalism. It’s a if-you-don’t-laugh-you’ll-cry site and shows media commentators and journa...

CJ talks to senior SEO analyst for Hearst, Dan Roberts, about how he helped grow online traffic to the publisher’s website by 150 per cent using SEO and Wordtracker. Full story at this link… Similar Posts: DNA 2008: from outsourcing to in-house, De Persgroep’s ad strategy NY Gov. S...

Iain Hepburn, who edited the footage, shows how the Mail is using Flip cameras to cover hard news topics - in this case Charles Lavery in Afghanistan. Full post at this link… Similar Posts: Manchester Evening News mojo captures Ronaldo crash Sports Journalists’ Association: FT to drop Saturd...

A US county court judge has called on news aggregation site Topix.com to reveal identifying information about 178 anonymous commenters, who left comments on a story relating to sexual abuse allegations. The site has until March 6 to comply. Full story at this link… Similar Posts: Judge could o...

Not-for-profit news organisation ProPublica has crated a site dedicated to analysis of President Obama’s stimulus package for the US economy. Working with news program The Takeaway and public radio station WNYC, ShovelWatch is big on data and data visualisation. For starters: A searchable, vis...

Yesterday saw representatives from the UK’s financial journalism industry give evidence to a House of Commons Treasury Committee inquiry into the banking crisis. So what conclusions were drawn about the media’s ‘role’ in the crisis? A fairly resounding ‘it wasn’t ...

…well, at least that’s how Journalism 2.0 describes the recently launched fully-searchable database of US government spending. According to USAspending.gov: “The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, acc...