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The Guardian is one of the very few newspapers that try to truly adapt from the printed press culture to the internet press culture. It goes deeply in datajournalism and tries to elaborate new...
Dan Roberts, national editor of the Guardian, the chair of the debate, explained how his team started trying to capture witnesses to events, harnessing citizen journalists, and has evolved into...
Asking the crowd for help is a regular part of the Guardian’s playbook, and because of that they’ve learned a bit about what works and what doesn’t. The paper embraces open journalism — and a new...
The newsdesk at the Guardian is planning an experiment in opening its doors. The idea is to publish a carefully-selected portion of the national, international and business newslists on a daily...
The Guardian's social news platform, nOtice, is free for users (“there’s no cost to browse around, post news or events or even place a small ad. nothing, zero, zilch”) and ad-supported....
For publishers and brands, features like crowdmapping, mobile publishing, liveblogging and collaboration are all on offer. Crowdmapping is the process of adding user-sourced data onto a map, an...
On Wednesday, the newspaper’s U.S. arm plans to launch what it’s calling a “pop-up aggregator.” After a major news story breaks — the kind that’s bound to be discussed for days, such as Marissa...
Dan Roberts, national news editor at The Guardian, says the experiment — which is similar to one being run over at The Atlantic Wire — is a logical outgrowth of the paper’s move towards a more open...
Britain's The Guardian was one of the first to make user-generated content — and crowdsourcing — a key part of its business, and also one of the first to try and turn itself into a truly...
N0tice is an online community noticeboard, upon which news, details of events, and local special offers can be posted for other users. There’s also new social sharing and personalization features,...
While the rioting and looting that convulsed parts of London last weekend spread to other parts of the UK on Monday, The Guardian newspaper enlisted help from the crowd to catalogue and portray to the destruction caused by uncontrolled groups of youths.
“What have you told us so far about the events over the weekend?” asked the newspaper to its readers.
What started as a gathering of around 200 protesters demanding answers over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the police on Thursday August 4th, culminated in a full-scale riot that spread across north-London suburbs and subsequently to other parts of the country, including the UK’s second largest city, Manchester.
“On Sunday, we began asking Guardian readers what they'd seen in Tottenham on Saturday night, and why they thought the vigil held for Mark Duggan escalated into rioting and looting”, wrote James Ball, a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations team. “This work had been used to complement and feed into work carried out by our reporters on the ground”.
The bottom line is that the secrecy that newspapers used to operate under no longer works. Not only is there more competition for stories, but mainstream media outlets no longer have a monopoly...
What they have learned, perhaps, is that they can’t reform or rebuild a society with just good intentions and 140 characters (or less) – especially if they are based at a far-away university. Yet...
What the Guardian's experiment is designed to tap into is "that wisdom-of-crowds thing," London-based national news editor Dan Roberts says. "Good ideas bubble up that...
Last week the Guardian launched a campaign to improve the teaching of computer science and IT in schools. In this campaign, others offered specific elements they had introduced in their own...
The Trussell trust says the public can mainly help in three ways: by donating food, money or volunteer time. Food banks will normally accept all non-perishable food, and most need people to help...
GuardianWitness has been launched in partnership with UK mobile operator EE, and lets users share videos, pictures and text directly with the Guardian’s editorial team, as well as peruse...
Here's how sites are handling the Sarah Palin e-mails: - The Washington Post had originally announced that it would be inviting just 100 readers to “analyze, contextualize, and research...
Honda Dream Factory Project is about innovation, good ideas and frontier-style discovery – the cultural engineers don’t just dream, they do, the partners say.And some of the UK’s best innovators...
Honda's Cultural Engineers are united by their desire to make a change and enhance the world we live in. They express this in different ways ranging from beautiful design work to...
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