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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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleTop 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.
View ArticleBeyond 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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