The Bureau of Investigative Journalism • 23rd April 2018

Dying Homeless: Counting the deaths of homeless people across the UK

The number of people sleeping rough rose by 169% between 2010 and 2017. During the bitter cold of the 2017-2018 winter, some deaths made headlines, including that of a man who died close to the Palace of Westminster. Despite many vulnerable people being known to the authorities, local journalists and charities were often the only ones that reported these deaths. The Bureau spoke to councils, hospitals, coroners' offices, police forces and NGOs. While there is a charitable network recording in

Huffington Post • 9th July 2018

'Something Is Going Wrong': 11 People Give Their Views On The Growing Homelessness Problem

Rising rough sleeping is a major concern, people in Birmingham have told HuffPost UK, as they shared their experiences of seeing an increase in homelessness in the city centre. Local Jonny Betteridge said he had walked past five homeless people “in as many metres” as people shared their reactions as part of HuffPost Listens, a project to go out in the city and listen to people.

Sifted • 2nd December 2020

The Future of Work

Fathm and Google News Initiative • 10th April 2020

Distributed Newsroom Playbook

The concept of the “newsroom” is one that conjures images of huddles of desks bustling with reporters, editors and producers working to cover the day’s events in real-time, surrounded by TV screens flashing breaking updates and the latest analytics. With the start of social distancing policies as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, newsrooms have quickly had to reconfigure as distributed, digital spaces. We are going to be working within distributed frameworks for a significant amount of time, f

Journalism.co.uk • 23rd July 2018

How are journalists dealing with email overload in modern newsrooms?

Journalists in modern newsrooms risk succumbing to “anxiety and exhaustion” because of the need to monitor the “seemingly endless sources of potential sources” now available to them. That is the view of Sally Warren, a Fleet Street journalist turned psychotherapist, on the pressure journalists feel to process emails, tweets, push notifications and more. I interviewed Warren, a former colleague of mine at The Daily Telegraph, as part of a project for the European Journalism Centre (EJC). Colle

The Tip Off • 5th June 2018

The Tip Off

Welcome to The Tip Off- the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of some of the best investigative journalism from recent years. Each episode we’ll be digging into an investigative scoop- hearing from the journalists behind the work as they tell us about the leads, the dead-ends and of course, the tip offs. There’ll be car chases, slammed doors, terrorist cells, meetings in dimly lit bars and cafes, wrangling with despotic regimes and much more. So if you’re curious about the fun, complic

Journalism.co.uk • 16th July 2018

HuffPost experiments with 'listening circles' in Birmingham to go beyond the London bubble

One of the reasons why the public increasingly mistrusts the media is that journalists are spending less time outside of their London offices, losing touch with what interests, inspires and bothers people outside the capital. To see whether local reporting can bring the media and their audiences closer together, HuffPost made a bold move and transferred its entire newsroom of 45 reporters and editors to Birmingham as part of the ‘HuffPost Listens’ project. “We wanted to get outside the London

Journalism.co.uk • 17th April 2020

What will newsrooms look like after the pandemic is over?

John Crowley writes on tech, business, newsroom management, burnout and disinformation. He is a trustee of the Journalists’ Charity. Newsrooms are an essential but romanticised part of our industry fabric. They are quieter than in the days of clattering typewriters, hot metal and so-called ‘copy boys’. But journalists still thrive on physical interaction and robust discussion on which story, headline or picture to use. Covid-19 has halted, for now, how every news organisation around the world

Nieman Lab • 13th April 2020

The coronavirus crisis will eventually end, but the distributed newsroom is here to stay

Over the past few weeks, social distancing policies and travel restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 came into force in countries across the globe, impacting billions — journalists included. Almost overnight, news publishers had to find a new way of functioning that didn’t revolve around physical newsrooms. To add to the pressure, many newsrooms are simultaneously facing an existential financial crisis of lost advertising revenue and subscription revenue at risk from a global recession, r

Journalism.co.uk • 9th February 2017

3 ways to make data visualisations and interactives work on mobile

Speaking at newsrewired in London yesterday (8 February), Martin Stabe, head of interactive news at The Financial Times, and Colleen McEnaney, graphics editor at The Wall Street Journal, shared some advice for making sure data visualisations work on mobile. Less is more • Make sure all information is available so that the narrative makes sense. • The point of the visualisation has to be clearly illustrated. If you start to feel your visualisation is becoming too cluttered, check if you are addi

Huffington Post • 8th July 2018

Uneasy, Frustrated, But Still 'Contrary': Why Birmingham Is Losing Patience About Brexit

“It’s not that I don’t agree with Brexit. The question again is, what is Brexit?” In one pithy remark, Kelly Matthews summed up the mood in Birmingham, as the UK’s exit from the EU next year looms larger than ever. With just 264 days to go until what Brexiteers dub “Independence Day”, there is a palpable sense of unease among the public in Britain’s second city, and in the wider region beyond.

Journalism.co.uk • 17th February 2017

The big challenges of special projects

As audience consumption habits continue to evolve as the digital media industry grows, newsrooms have been experimenting with bold new projects to engage audiences. A selection of these special projects were the topic of discussion at the newsrewired digital journalism conference on 8 February, where delegates heard about The Guardian’s VR immersive experience 6×9, Quartz’s 25 days of exchange, and The Financial Times's Seven robots you need to know. But what are the challenges of producing su

Journalism.co.uk • 8th March 2017

Yes, you can do media conferences without all-male panels

Since September 2015, I have been managing the programme for Journalism.co.uk’s newsrewired digital journalism event. In that period of time, Journalism.co.uk has organised four full-day conferences, and one-half day event. I have also been involved with the organisation of one event prior to taking the lead (July 2015). It’s International Women’s Day, and I want to take this opportunity to share some thoughts and some numbers about the gender balance at our events. From the day I started as

Huffington Post • 16th July 2018

'The News Has Skipped Us': 18 People Give Their Frank Thoughts On The State Of British Media

The national media has “skipped” Birmingham and most of the coverage of the area is relentlessly negative, according to people HuffPost spoke to in the UK’s second biggest city. Local views on topics like Brexit are overlooked by the London-focused media, they said, while the newspapers, internet and broadcast media could not always be trusted to tell “the truth” without “agenda”.

Journalism.co.uk • 31st May 2017

7 tips for getting started as a freelance journalist

Many journalists decide to go freelance for the freedom the position can offer – you can choose your own stories and working hours, and the ability to work from anywhere you want is certainly an attraction. But having to constantly pitch story ideas to editors and to seek funding for projects can be challenging. Being a freelancer also means that often you are working alone, without the support network that news organisations can offer to full-time staff. Check out this advice from freelance r

Well Told • 5th June 2017

Shorthand at #WellTold

Well Told is the first conference of its kind in the UK. On 27 & 28 May, two days were dedicated to the rise of longform and narrative journalism in London. Over 48 hours, across two venues, plenty of tips, examples, inspiration and, of course... powerful stories were shared among the 100+ delegates of journalists, authors, etc. Well Told is the brainchild of Giles Wilson, former founding editor of the BBC News Magazine - where he led the introduction of longer form immersive articles, such as

Huffington Post • 12th July 2018

'There Isn't Enough Coverage Of Knife Crime': 6 People Share Their Experience Of Police And Crime In Britain Today

Police cuts could have led to a rise in violent crime and the media needs to cover knife attacks more, people in Birmingham have told HuffPost UK. People frequently mentioned policing and crime in their area when asked what they cared about most for HuffPost Listens, a project which saw us go out in the city and listen to people.

Journalism.co.uk • 14th April 2018

What journalists can do to hold algorithms to account

For years, many people assumed that the decisions algorithms made were objective and neutral. But this is not the case, explained Julia Angwin, a former investigative journalist at ProPublica who is currently working to start up a newsroom analysing the impacts of technology on society, speaking in a session at the International Journalism Festival in Italy on 14 April. Angwin has been investigating cases of algorithm bias and discrimination, finding, for example, that one of the programs used

International Journalism Festival • 14th April 2018

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NewsFrames • 9th May 2018

Community Report: Looking Back on April 2018

Hello everyone. Here's a monthly update about what the NewsFrames community has been up to for the past month or so… we've been busy! This will likely be one of the last updates before the project goes on hiatus in early June (more here and here), as we think about how to launch the next state of NewsFrames. If you have any questions about what will happen with NewsFrames after the end of May, there are details at the end of this blog post about a series of hangouts being planned this month whe