Category: Online Exclusives

Don’t let the pretty pictures fool you: journalists need to take care with infographics

By Allison Elkin Three heat maps with the accompanying titles “Our Sites’ Users,” “Subscribers to Martha Stewart Living” and “Consumers of Furry Pornography” look exactly the same to the untrained eye. The subjects seems to be directly related. But they’re not—maps purporting to show user data or subscribers with multi-coloured blobs are sometimes just regular… Continue reading Don’t let the pretty pictures fool you: journalists need to take care with infographics

Cyber Trolls

You know they are out there – those evil keyboard people who comment on stories, tweet about you, or troll the internet leaving spiteful things sprinkled everywhere. Well, we’ve compiled some of the best ones about journalists and asked them to read them back for us, take a look:  

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