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The future of journalism: stories 2
You have to love the Internet. Just as I was wondering what Edward Tufte had to offer journalism, along comes Danny Sanchez with a blog about Hans Rosling. Rosling’s concern is presenting complex health information graphically – you can see him in action from February 2006 here. Update: Rosling is in the news because he’s…
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The future of journalism: stories
Most of the discussion of journalism’s future takes place around technology. There’s very little reappraisal of how we act to present stories and information. It struck me again reading Edward Tufte‘s Envisioning Information. Tufte presents a piece by David Hellerstein from Harper’s in 1984, called “The Slow, Costly Death of Mrs K–.” Hellerstein analyses and…
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News channel ratings shockers
You can call it a soft launch, but Sky News Australia’s new dedicated New Zealand newscast go off to a shocker. Ratings figures showed just 1500 people nationally aged 5 or more tuned in to the Sky News NZ Evening News debut at 7pm on Monday – or 0.1 per cent of viewers. Critics called…
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Hiring horror stories…
Overheard at a media bash I recently attended: We get hundreds of applications for every job we advertise. Too many to go through. But we have developed a strategy for dealing with them. Before scanning the CVs, we split the pile in two and chuck half away. After all, you don’t won’t unlucky people working…