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On the Ethics of Web Scraping and Data Journalism

Photo by Caresse Ley. Web scraping is a way to extract information presented on websites. As I explained it in the first instalment of this article, web scraping is used by many companies. It’s also a...

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Do Russian Media Get a Boost from Bots on Twitter?

Hundreds of what appear to be Twitter bots are artificially inflating the retweet and favorite counts of tweets with links to articles from some of Russia’s top news agencies. Lawrence Alexander...

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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

The post Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links appeared first on Global Investigative Journalism Network.

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Beyond 800 Words: New Digital Story Formats

The 800-word article is still the dominant form of online news from most publishers. This largely seems to be a legacy from printed newspapers, but to a lesser extent this is true for online news video...

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