Tag: journalism
How an Argentine real estate platform is building visualizations for Latin American newsrooms
How much will an apartment within walking distance to a subway station cost you in São Paulo? What about a home overlooking a park in Buenos Aires? Those are the […]
Notes on VR from the 2017 Sheffield Doc/Fest
A growing number of non-fiction works are being produced at the intersection of documentary storytelling and journalism. The Sheffield Doc/Fest has become one of the best events to experience these new […]
Meet the Swedish newspaper editor who put an algorithm in charge of his homepage
About four years ago, Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s top newspapers, was in free fall. The paper was experiencing depressed circulation, no digital revenue, and dwindling readership. When Fredric Karén took the job as […]
SXSW: Trump vs. the NYT, algorithmic news and other cool things we heard over kickoff weekend
Storybench flew all the way to Austin, Texas to attend South by Southwest, the world-renowned tech-and-innovation conference. Reporters Rachel Grozanick and Felippe Rodrigues, both students in Northeastern’s Media Innovation program, are on […]
Accelerating knowledge: Four takeaways from an IBM data visualization expert
Northeastern University professor Mauro Martino is one of the minds behind IBM’s Watson News Explorer, a dashboard that allows users to explore the themes surfacing across the news ecosystem. Martino spoke last week […]
A dummy’s guide to mapping Daesh
Dietmar Offenhuber researches the relationship between visual representations and urban governance. He heads the Information Design and Visualization graduate program at Northeastern University and tweets @dietoff. I saw a map of the […]
An artful telling of the tragic: Behind the scenes of a Boston Globe mini-documentary
After nearly dying at the hands of his abusive stepfather, five-year-old Strider Wolf is placed in the care of his grandparents who live in a 24-foot camper in the woods […]
Harvard Moves into the Neighborhood and a Citizen Journalist is Born
When I’m not exploring the frontiers of digital journalism as a graduate student at Northeastern University Journalism School’s Media Innovation program, I’m the projects coordinator for the Boston Institute for […]
How to learn responsive web design by coding your own story
Say you have a great story with text, pullquotes and photos ready to go and now you want to throw it up on its own website. All you need is […]
Digital help filing your FOIA request
A recent Gallup poll reaffirmed what we already know-the public’s trust in the media keeps sinking. So what’s a committed reporter to do? One answer is to take advantage of the Freedom of Information […]
Curious City’s Jenn Brandel on news experiments
When Chicago public radio station WBEZ put out a call for story ideas, many of the suggestions revolved around the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that left 100,000 people homeless […]