Visualising data with the Datapress WordPress plugin
{{Exhibit}} {{Footnotes}} Here’s a useful plugin for bloggers working with data: Datapress allows you to quickly visualise a dataset as a table, timeline, scatter plot, bar chart, ‘intelligent list’...
View ArticleHyperlocal Voices: Ian Wylie, Jesmond Local
Yessi Bello continues the Hyperlocal Voices series with an interview with JesmondLocal‘s Ian Wylie, who decided to dabble in local journalism after taking voluntary redundancy from a national...
View ArticleHyperlocal Voices: Darryl Chamberlain, 853 Blog
Having worked for the BBC News Entertainment website for a decade, Darryl Chamberlain took voluntary redundancy and set up the widely successful 853 Blog. As part of the Hyperlocal Voices series he...
View ArticleHyperlocal Voices: Jason Cobb, Onionbagblog
As part of the Hyperlocal Voices series, Yessi Bello speaks to Jason Cobb, publisher of Wivenhoe’s Onionbagblog, which has moved with its author from town to town, and from covering local sport to an...
View ArticleWhich blog platform should I use? A blog audit
When people start out blogging they often ask what blogging platform they should use – WordPress or Blogger? Tumblr or Posterous? It’s impossible to give an answer, because the first questions should...
View ArticleCustomising your blog – some basic principles (Online Journalism Handbook)
A customised car. Like a customised blog, only bigger. Image by Steve Metz - click to see original Although I cover blogging in some depth in my online journalism book, I thought I should write a...
View Article7 buttons you should be using in the WordPress edit view
If you’re writing blog posts there are a number of formatting options you should be using regularly to make your article easier to read for users, and easier to understand for search engines (and...
View Article“How do I embed a map/video/infographic/audio/timeline/chart/liveblog on...
Every year one of the questions most frequently asked by journalism students is “How do I embed a map/chart/infographic/liveblog/video/audio/gallery/tweet/document in a WordPress site?” Here is a...
View ArticleHow to embed a vertical video from YouTube or Vimeo
In my series of posts on Snapchat for journalists I mentioned that you can embed vertical video so that it doesn’t have those annoying black bars either side. Here’s how. OK, so YouTube may not support...
View ArticleHow to find ‘feeds for leads’ as a journalist
Listening. Image by Rob Franksdad When a journalist gets their first job, or switches role to a new area or specialism, they need to quickly work out where to find useful leads. This often involves the...
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