In December 2009, I was invited by the Ashoka Foundation in my capacity as a News & Knowledge Entrepreneur to think about what changes would occur in the media landscape over 2010, and what I would do using new media in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. This was published in Ashoka’s website in early January 2010. [...]
Archive | November, 2010
News writing and reporting: Leveraging new media and data driven journalism
I delivered this presentation to the Sri Lanka College of Journalism as part of a lecture series aimed at mid-career journalists from mainstream print and broadcast media in Sri Lanka. In this lecture I introduced the concept of data driven journalism with examples from Google and Groundviews. The examples from Google’s amazing Public Data Explorer, which use [...]
