Students on the Narrative module at Birmingham City University have been learning how factual storytellers use a range of techniques to tell their stories effectively — and the impact of different editorial decisions. Read their analysis below: FT article: Armed groups, coca crops and death’: how prices crashed for cocaine’s…

Está disponível em língua portuguesa meu e-book ‘Jornalismo de dados: um guia rápido.’ Traduzido pela jornalista brasileira Amanda Maia, a publicação segue a linha de raciocínio de meu outro livro ‘Excel for journalists’ ou ‘Excel para periodistas’ (tradução espanhola). E está disponível nos formatos PDF, Kindle e para iPad. First published on the Online Journalism Blog

Artificial intelligence is known to suffer from deep-seated issues when it comes to diversity: machine learning algorithms are trained on historical data that can embed institutional discrimination; NLP and generative AI suffer from the same problems; and the industry itself has a diversity challenge. It’s surprising, then, that the…

Here are some analyses by MED7334 Narrative students this week: Analysis of Altnews’s fact-check “Fact-check: Child kidnapping video viral on WhatsApp is scripted” Analysis of The Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Politico Europe, June 2022) Analysis of The Economist’s article about family separation among slaves in America Analysis of American…

Across a series of posts I’ve been exploring the habits of successful journalists that are often described as being “innate” or “unteachable”: from curiosity and scepticism, persistence and empathy, to creativity and discipline. In this final post I look at the quality underpinning them all: passion. Are journalists only ever…

In a previous post I wrote about the central role of creativity in journalism training — in this penultimate post in a series on the seven habits of successful journalists, I explore how discipline is equally important in directing that creativity towards a professional end — and how it can…

In the fifth in a series of posts on the seven habits of successful journalists, I explore how creativity can be developed in trainee journalists. You can read the posts on curiosity, scepticism, persistence and empathy here. Describing journalism as a creative profession can cause discomfort for some reporters: we…

In the fourth of a series of post on seven habits often associated with good journalism I look at a quality which is much less talked about, and often misunderstood — and why I believe it should be just as central as qualities such as persistence or curiosity. This was…

In the third of a series of post on seven habits often associated with good journalism I look at how persistence and tenacity can be taught in journalism training — and why it should be. One of the earliest skills that broadcast journalists learn is how to conduct a vox…