Capture Cardiff Part 2: The Splott Division
As featured on Guardian Cardiff…
The emerging art of data stories
Visualising and mashing data has historically been the responsibility of designers and coders, but an increasing number of people with editorial backgrounds are trying their hand at both, largely due to a widening awareness of what is now possible. During his Knight Journalism fellowship at Stanford University, multi media editor Geoff McGhee interviewed visualisation trendsetters on … Read more
The impact of technology on travel and journalism
When it comes to location-based social networking tools, Foursquare gained huge momentum in 2010.
Capture Cardiff 1: the decline of local pubs
What makes a perfect pub? For George Orwell, wistfully writing in 1946, there were ten precise criteria – including motherly barmaids, draught stout and tobacco available at the bar. Any attempt to define a perfect pub is, of course, entirely subjective. But Orwell’s question may yet become academic. According to staggering statistics from the British … Read more
Will Lewis: The Times they are a-changing
Will Lewis, Group General Manager for News International and former Editor-in-Chief at Telegraph Media Group, addressed the Cardiff Business Club on Monday night at St. David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay. I was fortunate enough to attend the event along with a handful of JOMEC students.
Joanna Geary: virtual communities
Newspapers whose employers look down on their readers can have no hope of ever succeeding as a business. This was Murdoch’s message in his address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2005. Fast-forward five years and Joanna Geary (@timesjoanna), web development editor for The Times, couldn’t agree more.
Cardiff at Christmas
A snap shot of Cardiff in the run-up to Christmas. Check out the nifty camera skillz!
