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The New York Times is still using what its senor software architect called as “mullets of the Internet”? Oh, the humanity. A superb piece from Guardian Datablog/Datastore editor Simon Rogers on the infographics snobbery in the dataviz field: “[I]t must be challenging for people who have spent years in design school to have some punk waltz in with a bit of nouse and illustrator on their machine to produce stuff that people, y’know, like.” More from Simon.

The New York Times is still using what its senor software architect called as “mullets of the Internet”?

Oh, the humanity.

A superb piece from Guardian Datablog/Datastore editor Simon Rogers on the infographics snobbery in the dataviz field:

“[I]t must be challenging for people who have spent years in design school to have some punk waltz in with a bit of nouse and illustrator on their machine to produce stuff that people, y’know, like.”

More from Simon.

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reporter-arm: The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821 Ooof.

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The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821

Ooof.

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shortformblog: A valid point by CopyEditor that should be kept in mind when reading this article. (P.S. CopyEditor runs a great Tumblr.) Thanks. For additional context, via @jamesrbuk, Leigh admitted receiving voicemail info on a weapons exec years before it was illegal, and said so in this Guardian piece 5 years ago. Higginson, in his “exclusive,” also apparently failed to credit the Guido Fawkes blog.

shortformblog:

A valid point by CopyEditor that should be kept in mind when reading this article. (P.S. CopyEditor runs a great Tumblr.)

Thanks. For additional context, via @jamesrbuk, Leigh admitted receiving voicemail info on a weapons exec years before it was illegal, and said so in this Guardian piece 5 years ago. Higginson, in his “exclusive,” also apparently failed to credit the Guido Fawkes blog.

(via shortformblog)

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Participate in conversations about our content, and take responsibility for the conversations you start.

Focus on the constructive by recognising and rewarding intelligent contributions.

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The first two lines of the Guardian’s blogging and commenting guidelines for its journalists. Excellent, methinks.

My reading is that the Guardian’s journalists are encouraged to engage their audience but not debate and argue with them. The second line hints at “guiding” the conversation toward a constructive focus.

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curiositycounts:

Data journalism workflow broken down – a peek behind the curtain at The Guardian, who’s been the smartest public media source of data journalism for the past couple of years. Highly recommended companion viewing: Journalism in the Age of Data, a fascinating and timely documentary from Stanford.

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If you think about journalism, not business models, you can become rather excited about the future. If you only think about business models you can scare yourself into total paralysis.
— Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Read the full text of his Hugh Cudlipp lecture.
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Been There: Learning to dodge cliches

 ”Instead of going for the tried and true, play with a cliché. When a hurricane brushes past, write about ‘the storm before the calm,’” Merrill Perlman says in the Columbia Journalism Review. 

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