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Lovely Charts is a web and iPad app that allows the simple creation of flow charts, site maps and other visual representations.
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This post is one of a series of blog posts from the first ONA class of MJ Bear Fellows describing their experiences, projects and sharing their knowledge with the ONA community. Fellow Lucas Timmons is a data journalist and web producer for The Edmonton Journal in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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The Tor project website says, “Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents.”
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The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
Current Location: Washington, D.C.
Current Gig: Executive Producer, America, BBC News (former ONA Board member)
Member Since: October 2007
Six-word memoir: …am I right, am I wrong.
Favorite fictional character: Sam Gribley from “My Side of the Mountain.”
Favorite tech tool: The word processor.
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
What do we mean by ‘longform journalism’ & how can we get it ‘to go’? | Poynter.We know that technology has renewed attention to longform journalism in recent years. But it’s also changed how we think about it.
Do we define longform by the quality of the writing? By the amount of time it took to write? By the research it entailed? Or do we define it by length?”
The Guardian calls it “the job of the moment,” but why are they so in demand? A look at what data scientists do and why statistics will be “the sexy job in the next ten years.”
