Currently Initium Media(@端傳媒） is hiring data interns at Initium Lab, hoping potential students could join the team! Both post graduates and undergraduates are welcome.
Month: September 2016
Smartphones have become an increasingly essential tool to journalists covering emergency situations.
Ivo Burum of Burum Media (Australia) discussed mobile journalism tools SCRAP (a digital storytelling language), copyright, hardware (smartphones, lights, microphones, tripods), functional apps for shooting, editing, post-production, and more.
Continue reading “Workshop: Masterclass in Mobile Journalism”
Virtual reality’s ability to immerse readers in a unique environment can take our audiences to new places. This special session offer the participants free Google Cardboard viewers available to experience VR first-hand, plus a demonstration from China’s innovative Caixin.
Continue reading “Virtual Reality: A Workshop & Demonstration”
在这个“大数据”的时代，不可否认全球各地政府、企业，还有个人每天都在制造着海量数据。这些数据中有多少可以被记者挖掘，多少可以成为调查记者或者数据记者的重要工具？多少可以被有效利用？作为记者的我们要如何挖掘、整理这些数据？
The Panama Paper team has no doubt made the highlight of 2nd Investigative Journalism Conference, and today Ms. Mar Cabra, the Editor of ICIJ is sharing how they built the team and how it works. We are here in Nepal, bring you the latest information about the story behind this year’s biggest investigative journalism.
Despite the Panama Paper has made a ground-breaking news, the team is actually quite small, the ICIJ has 12 people on staff who come from different country all over the world, the major communication method is through the Internet, of course. Ms. Cabra has kindly shared her keynote of how the team works, what kind of people they have on board and mostly important, what kind of tools they are using. Feel free to sample information from this link: From Zero to 50%
text/photo by Bobo Wei
editing by Valerie Cooper
The Data & News Society is celebrating its second year and coming back for a new season. The Season 2.1 Colloquium was held on 21st September, with Florin C. Serban and Valerie Cooper, PhD students in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, as speakers.
Coding is becoming a crucial skill for investigative journalism teams. But getting great results is not always easy, as mindsets differ. Learn from three women who have led multidisciplinary teams of coders and muckrakers.
Continue reading “Muckrakers & Coders: Building the New Investigative Team”
#IJAsia2016
From infectious diseases to the pharmaceutical industry, from local hospitals to basic care, covering health is a rich but challenging topic.
It is a brand new topic for the conference, as well as a new and fashionable way to cover stories.
This year’s massive leak of documents exposing offshore holdings–the Panama Papers–has changed how journalists think about their craft. Collaboration, tech-savvy data analysis, and cross-border reporting are the new buzzwords.
