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recent bookmarks from jerrykingA Newsroom Team That Sees Data in the Air - The New York Times2023-01-18T14:52:48+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/insider/a-newsroom-team-that-sees-data-in-the-air.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Reader%20Center
jerryking>Formed last year, the Weather Data team is harnessing clouds of information to share a more comprehensive forecast with readers.<<
Weather has always been part of The Times’s coverage. Short forecasts have appeared on the front page since 1897.......As the planet continues to warm and wilder weather [i.e. = "global weirding"] becomes more frequent, The Times is expanding its weather reporting to help readers better understand extreme weather events and the threats they pose...........The work of the Weather Data team is a part of The Times’s ongoing effort to broaden the scope of its data journalism. One of the roles of data journalism..... is “to deliver a clear, **reader-oriented** display of quantitative information.” In a rapidly advancing digital age, more information has become available to the public, and journalists at The Times are using that data to clarify complex events through data-powered visual reports......“every parcel in the air is a data point.”.......Sources like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where scientists can model advanced forecasts, are publishing more information.......As a meteorologist and a reporter, Mr. Jones said his role is “to take what scientists are doing and translating it so that it makes sense for the general public.”.......the team plans to broaden its >>data collection<< efforts so that readers can view “>>always-on<<” [i.e. = "on-demand"/"pervasiveness"] interactive tools that capture “a full stable of the weather events most likely to be happening in their region,” similar to the way the wildfire tracker page, which gathers data from land management agencies and satellite imagery from NASA to show the spread or containment of destructive fires, does.
“We are covering the major events that might affect people’s lives,” “We want to be as clear as we can in explaining to our readers when a storm is coming and what may happen to them.”
]]>charts Communicating_&_Connecting data data_collection data_journalism extreme_weather_events global_weirding infographics journalists meteorology NOAA NYT on-demand pervasiveness quantitative reader-friendly reporters visualization weather newsrooms always-onhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9afca5945fb5/How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets2019-06-15T03:27:18+00:00
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
jerrykingdata data_journalism reporters spreadsheetshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6180357117aa/How 5 Data Dynamos Do Their Jobs2019-06-14T23:58:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/reader-center/data-reporting-spreadsheets.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Freader-center
jerryking>specialized schools<< once looked more like the rest of the city school system, which is mostly black and Hispanic.
With my colleague K.K. Rebecca Lai from The Times’s graphics department, I started to dig into a huge spreadsheet that listed the racial breakdown of each of the specialized schools dating to the mid-1970s.
analyzed changes in the city’s immigration patterns to better understand why some immigrant groups were overrepresented at the schools and others were underrepresented. We mapped out where the city’s accelerated academic programs are, and found that mostly black and Hispanic neighborhoods have lost them. And we tracked the rise of the local test preparation industry, which has exploded in part to meet the demand of parents eager to prepare their children for the specialized schools’ entrance exam.
To put a human face to the data points we gathered, I collected yearbooks from black and Hispanic alumni and spent hours on the phone with them, listening to their recollections of the schools in the 1970s through the 1990s. The final result was a data-driven article that combined Rebecca’s remarkable graphics, yearbook photos, and alumni reflections.
(4) Reed Abelson, Health and Science reporter
the most compelling stories take powerful anecdotes about patients and pair them with eye-opening data.....Being comfortable with data and spreadsheets allows me to ask better questions about researchers’ studies. Spreadsheets also provide a way of organizing sources, articles and research, as well as creating a >>timeline<< of events. By putting information in a spreadsheet, you can quickly access it, and share it with other reporters.
(5) Maggie Astor, Politics reporter
a political reporter dealing with more than 20 presidential candidates, she uses spreadsheets to track polling, fund-raising, policy positions and so much more. Without them, there’s just no way she could stay on top of such a huge field......The climate reporter Lisa Friedman and she used another spreadsheet to track the candidates’ positions on several climate policies.
]]>311 behind-the-scenes data datasets data_journalism data_scientists FOIA groundbreaking hidden massive_data_sets Communicating_&_Connecting 5_W’s information_overload information_sources mapping New_York_City open_data organizing_data self-organization systematic_approaches spreadsheets storytelling timelines tools journalism NYT reporters location_data fundraising polling policy_positions Stuyvesant_High specialized_programs demand_spikeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c0839009fe67/Crovitz: Before 'Watergate' Could be Googled - WSJ.com2012-04-27T17:35:32+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304356604577341883244096256.html?_nocache=1335547610597&user=welcome&mg=id-wsj
jerrykingWatergate scandals scuttlebutt due_diligence journalists Bob_Woodward Carl_Bernstein digital_media public_opinion Yale Colleges_&_Universities investigative_journalism students technology hands-on legwork journalism digital_savvy joined-up Richard_Nixon reportershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dfb458b3be26/Reporters: Prick up your ears -2011-10-30T16:52:49+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/reporters-prick-up-your-ears/article774079/
jerryking>the single most important<< quality of a good journalist is. The best answer is "curiosity," which may kill cats but supports almost every virtue that a good journalist possesses. If a journalist doesn't learn something in the course of doing his or her job, neither do you. And if you don't learn something, journalism is failing you, and you will tune it out before long.
The people on As It Happens have sustained this capacity. They do their homework on the issues, and in conducting interviews, they follow the conversation, elicit new information and learn.
Barbara Frum once said that the most important tool of a good interviewer is listening, because it is often what your subject says in answering that provokes the next and most revealing question. ...Mary Lou Finlay's curiosity remains keen six years into hosting As It Happens , and 28 years after joining CBC Toronto itself. You can hear her listening and following up on the content of interviews as she goes. You can hear her learning -- being surprised -- which offers the listener the rewards of the chase and a share in the gift of the new. But there's more.
The classic definition of journalism in most newsrooms is "what went wrong yesterday," with some attention given to "what might go wrong tomorrow." Both of these negative paradigms are relevant, AIH understands that good journalism requires application to other paradigms as well: "what went right yesterday" and "what might go right tomorrow." ...Curiosity is a defining characteristic of the young (as certainty is of the old). Journalism struggles to stay young.]]>reporters journalists ProQuest William_Thorsell journalism listening surprises curiosity thinking_tragically the_single_most_important active_listening journalistic_instinctshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:759d5ceeff39/