Sarah Hartley

• David Wilcox » BBC collaboration helps network London hyperlocals

  tags: network london bbc collaboration

  • A London network isn’t a new idea, as Hugh explained, but this time something might be possible, particularly if the BBC could help out – perhaps by listing local sites at BBC London. There has to be something in the collaboration for both sides.

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• How to: use Facebook Subscribe as a journalist | How to succeed in journalism | Journalism.co.uk

  tags: journalist how to facebook

  • This guide looks at why journalists should consider adding a subscribe button to their personal profile, how to best use Facebook to interact and engage, and suggests tricks and tips for making Facebook’s algorithm work in your favour.

• Unfriending and private profiles are the new trends on social networks | VentureBeat

  tags: privacy social networks socialmedia

  • Privacy appears to be the new preference of social media denizens. The majority of social network users (58 percent) have set their profiles to private, and just 20 percent of adults said their profiles remained public.

• New hyperlocal site is student journalist’s ‘living CV’ – Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage

  tags: journalism hyperlocal

  • James Bailey, who is studying a BA in news journalism at the University of Sunderland, started Easington Hewer last month as part of his studies after spotting what he saw as a gap in the market.

• Why link out? Four journalistic purposes of the noble hyperlink » Nieman Journalism Lab

  “What can links give to online journalism? I see four main answers.”

  tags: media blog writing journalism

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Data visualisation of New York's 311 service showing city's concerns by the hour

The #solomoDEN event in Salford Quays was an opportunity to hear about projects, research and initiatives in the area of social-local-mobile journalism.

I attended to talk about a GMG project I’m involved with called n0tice.com which has these ideas at its heart to produce an online/mobile noticeboard (and if anyone would like an invite please drop your email here or via the comments below).

Here’s my pick of the other talks;

1. World Newsmedia Innovation Study.
There’s a lot of information in these 130 pages, 100 data sets compiled by 500 respondents in 11 languages. The aspect that caught my eye was the plans that news organisations have around developing new businesses and this mysterious finding: “While mobile phones, e-readers and social media remain the top propescts in 2011, responses show that managers are generally less enthusiastic about these opportunities than in 2010.” The full report is being being available to download at the website.

2. Help me Investigate networks.
The collaborative website that helps people investigate issues of shared concern has recently refined the proposition into various strands including health, welfare and education.

Currently Paul is calling on interested bloggers to get involved in a Help Me Investigate health project looking at some of the data on GP surgeries’ patient list numbers. More on that here: http://helpmeinvestigate.com/health/

3. Sky in Tyne and Wear.
It was fascinating to hear from Simon Bucks about the video journalism experiment going on in the north east. The unease from local newspaper editors in the room was palpable as he described how a team of 13 journalists including nine dedicated video journalists were starting work in a patch chosen for its sporting enthusiasim and clear sense of self-identity.

“Newspapers are doing very little video… we are occupying a new space” -Simon Bucks on @skytyneandwear #SoLoMoDEN

— Robin Morley (@mrrobinmorley) February 23, 2012

As well as the original content that large team is producing, the broadcaster is also encouraging submitted video and self-serve events listings in the locality. One to watch.

4. Launch of Media and Digital Enterprise (Made).
The UK Winner of last year’s Google IPI award for news innovation was officially launched in a low key event at the end of the main sessions. Any budding news entrepreneur looking to develop a business involving data journalism should find this music to their ears – mentoring, software and support on offer. Simply add your details to the form before March 31 [Disclosure: I am involved in delivering some of the training support].

5. Open data cities 
A typically barnstorming finale from Greg Hadfield inspired the audience into thinking about data and the role of local journalists in not just acquiring data for stories but being the facilitators for city-level conversations. A whole new way of interacting with the citizens formally known as readers.

.@GregHadfield If local media wants to put itself back at centre of the community it needs to lead the call for open local data #solomoden

— John Thompson (@johncthompson) February 23, 2012

It was not just a great talk, it was a rallying cry to those of us who value data journalism to think about how we can collaborate to make such things happen. Anyone?

* There’s also more information at this live blog by Daniel Bentley  and this blog post from Caroline Beavon. Feel free to drop any other links to coverage in the comments below.

The Justice Select Committee will hold its first evidence session in the post-legislative scrutiny of FOIA inquiry on Tuesday 21 February.

Along with a great many other journalists, I’ve put forward some thoughts including why the idea of widening  charges for FOI requests would be an unpalatable solution to the problem of cutting the costs of administering the system.

While there’s no doubt that some FOI requests are time-consuming and therefore costly to supply, applying more fees to the process as a matter of course would, in my view, disproportionately impact on freelancers and independent publishers eg. community websites and hyperlocals.

Without the might of a news organisation behind them, even a tiny fee could be enough to deter a hard-pressed community website editor
and result in important local issues being unreported – especially in areas already suffering from lack of accountability through regional news cuts/closures.
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber warns that a cost limit could also result in having no information released at all if charges were applied to redacting of sensitive information:

“At present, cost limits only apply to the expense of locating and extracting information, but not redaction or other costs. These expenses must not be rolled within the cost ceilings. Allowing officials to count such costs towards the limit would encourage them to consider exemptions or redact heavily in order to waste time, and thereby hit the cost limit without releasing any information.”

If the system needs to be less costly, let’s look at other ways to achieve that. For example, greater transparency in what information has previously been released.

If there was proper transparency it would surely save time and therefore money as well as making the whole system more manageable and useful to the public.

In the spirit of that, I make all my FoI requests public via whatdotheyknow (view them here) and on this blog to save others’ time and the public purse some pennies.

As of January, there were 100,000 such requests in the public archive . If this, or something similar, became standard practice would the overall number of requests (and therefore costs) would be reduced without any reduction in the amount of information being made public?

* There’s also a wealth of journalists’ submissions on this at journalism.co.uk which include reports of lack of assistance from authorities, delaying tactics and extending the scope of the act.

• When is Media not Media? When it’s Social media | The Wall Blog

  tags: media social media blog

  • The blog for instance could be one set up for the campaign, comments can be moderated, the video is one the brand creates, it is just what happens beyond that where control is ceded; beyond that where conversation might or might not be sparked.

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• Innovative Apps: Rat Out Your Neighbor Anonymously — AppAdvice

  tags: neighbours apps antisocial citizenship

  • The town’s call for citizens to engage is apparent with MyGilbert, which invites you to turn in your neighbors if they are in violation of town codes. For example, if you have a neighbor with barking dogs all you need to do is open the app, select the button for reporting issues and select the correct code violation from the list.

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• Garrett Goodman: n0tice: The Guardian’s New SoLoMo Reader Community

  • There are some interesting ways for visitors to provide feedback on a report (that’s what news items are called on n0tice), besides your standard “report abuse” button. Users can offer input in three categories (interest, importance, and accuracy) with a single click, making this first tier of engagement both extremely easy and potentially very useful. This information could be used by the Guardian to help sort what news from n0tice gets brought to the attention of its journalists for larger stories.

• Data Driven Journalism

  tags: data opendata journalism handbook

  • If you’re interested to contribute to the first Data Journalism Handbook please fill in this form as soon as possible indicating your level and area of expertise and the chapter that you would like to contribute to. We will get in touch with you as soon as we can once you’ve submitted the form.

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• Innovative Communities need Innovative Funders: what we’re learning from Neighbourhood Challenge – NESTA

  tags: communities learning neighbourhood nesta community organising

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height: 30.4px;"><canvas height="30" width="129" style="width: 129px; height: 30px; top: 1px; left: -2px;"></canvas><cufontext>learning </cufontext></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="from " style="width: 65px; height: 30.4px;"><canvas height="30" width="89" style="width: 89px; height: 30px; top: 1px; left: -2px;"></canvas><cufontext>from </cufontext></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Neighbourhood " style="width: 198px; height: 30.4px;"><canvas height="30" width="222" style="width: 222px; height: 30px; top: 1px; left: -2px;"></canvas><cufontext>Neighbourhood </cufontext></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Challenge" style="width: 119px; height: 30.4px;"><canvas height="30" width="137" style="width: 137px; height: 30px; top: 1px; left: -2px;"></canvas><cufontext>Challenge</cufontext></cufon></h2><br/> <p><strong>Alice Casey – 31.01.2012</strong></p><br/> <p><strong>I’m very pleased to share a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/Neighbourhood%20Challenge%20Learning%20from%20innovative%20communities">new publication</a> with you today which has been created to showcase what we’re learning through working with the 17 Neighbourhood Challenge projects.</strong></p><br/> <p></p><p>The groups have had an incredibly busy time since the call for ideas back in October 2010, and we have seen a real range of actions taking place across the whole programme since then. Community centres have been refurbished and opened up at The Mill in Walthamstow, Brixham in Devon, and Coopers Edge in Gloucestershire. What is much more than this, these hubs are already becoming local centres of activity where community members themselves have been setting the agenda for how things work, and how to involve new people in their projects.</p><br/><p>A variety of methods to galvanise action have been put into play, demonstrating a range of locally tailored approaches, from Community Organising in Brent, Newark and Manchester, to social entrepeneurship in Bradford and Bolton. We have also seen many groups take up an Asset Based Community Development (Strengths-based) approach as their own learning progresses, with Merseyside and Surrey Community Foundations using this alongside community challenge prizes, and Shiregreen in Sheffield developing this as part of Sanctuary Housing’s engagement strategy.</p><br/><p></p></div></div></div>

• MediaShift . 10 Types of Foundation-Led Projects Changing the Local Media Landscape | PBS

  tags: journalism foundation community models

  • Here’s a look at some of the projects that have attracted community foundation support through the Knight Community Information Challenge.

• Location, Location, Location | Online Journalism Blog

  tags: journalism location geolocation advertising mobile

  • The other notable growth area, location based mobile advertising, also offers a different slant on the typical “check in” service which Gowalla et al tend to specialise in. Borrell forerecasts this space will increase 66% in the US during 2012 (Slide 22).

     

    The most high profile example of this service in the UK is O2 More, which triggers advertising or deals when a user passes through certain locations – offering a clear financial incentive for sharing your location.

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