Digital Editors' Network

Recently Paul Bradshaw asked this question on The Guardian Data Blog : “Data journalism is huge. I don't mean 'huge' as in fashionable - although it has become that in recent months - but 'huge' as in 'incomprehensibly enormous'. It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statisticsto design and programming. The idea of combining those skills to tell important stories is powerful - but also intimidating. Who can do all that?" One answer: Tom Johnson can. And during this two-day workshop Tom, a former editor of the Scientific American and co-founder of the Institute for Analytic Journalism , will help you get started, too. Organised by the Digital Editors Network 's Data Taskgroup and sponsored by Vision + Media and the Journalism Leaders Programme at UCLAN , this handson workshop is aimed at journalists who are new to or recently responsible for turning da...

Should newspapers be held accountable for tweets by journalists or their blogs? Where should corrections appear online and should there be some kind of standard mark for professionally produced content? These are some of the questions about online standards that digital editors will be discussing next month when they meet in Manchester. Will Gore of the Press Complaints Commission will tell the Digital Editors' Network why the PCC has launched a consultation to consider how its remit should extend into the online world. Also speaking at the October 14th meeting which is being held at MADLab in Manchester is Ben Edwards of PageSuite, creators of perhaps the first regional newspaper iPad app. He will talk about how integrating new platforms can deliver new revenues. And what publishers need to do make that happen. And Francis Irving , one of the key forces behind MySociety and now ScraperWiki, will tell the Digital Editors' Network why he's working to build the w...