Online Journalism Blog

What are the risks of information you put into an AI chat becoming public?

In a guest post for OJB, James Hickman pulls together a set of basic best-practice guidelines for creating data journalism videos on TikTok, from length and location to animation and style.

The latest “wife of” headline — ITV News’s report on the actor Lisa Faulkner revealing that she has undergone surgery after a cancer diagnosis — is an opportunity to get journalism students exploring how different forms of bias might shape news reporting —

Sending FOIs to multiple bodies across the country to get the big picture on an issue sounds like a great idea — until the responses start to trickle in.

Using visualisation on TV and video is very different to using charts and maps online.

Image by Cory Doctorow, from Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Some essential reading by Agnes Stenbom Swedling explores how news organisations integrate AI into their workflows and the idea of the “human in the loop“.

One of the most powerful ways to generate original journalism is to look at the systems behind stories — particularly the points where those systems fail.

At this year’s Dataharvest I delivered a workshop on using Python in QGIS to automate the process of exporting maps for multiple locations.

In this latest post in the FAQ series, I am sharing some responses to a radio interview about AI’s impact on journalism.

Documents and other collections of text can be goldmines for data journalism — if you know how to approach them as data.