Tech & AI
What We Learned Building a Chatbot for La Silla Vacía’s Newsroom Archive
We spent 12 months building an AI tool for our independent news site in Colombia. Here’s what it taught us about running a newsroom in the age of AI.
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archives
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Using Archives in Investigative Reporting
Tristan Ahtone
GIJN Toolbox
Journalism-First Tools to Search Spreadsheet Text, Track Website Changes, and Mine Investigative Resources Through the Years
In this latest GIJN Toolbox, we highlight three new powerful but easy-to-use investigative tools that have been specifically developed with the needs of data and investigative journalists in mind.
Databases News & Analysis
A New Digital Archive to Preserve an Investigative Legacy in Central America
The Central American Independent Media Archive (CAIMA) seeks to preserve reporting from threatened or shuttered accountability media sites across the region.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Merkel’s Legacy, Russia’s Politics, Korea’s Missiles, Melting Ice Archives
Tracking the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter from September 13 to September 19, using NodeXL mapping and our own human curation, we found projects by Reuters and the German newspaper Morgenpost analyzing Merkel’s legacy in numbers. In this edition, we also feature a story looking into North and South Korea’s missile programs, a piece on school segregation in the United States, and more worrying climate change revelations.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Why Journalists Need An Archiving System
Talya Cooper spent several years working alongside journalists in a newsroom, where she witnessed some “unholy messes” of files on both physical and virtual desktops. But as she writes here, while taking good care of data requires some time and money the loss of irreplaceable reporting work can come at a higher cost.
Reporting Tools & Tips
6 Steps Newsrooms Can Take Right Now to Preserve Digital Archives
One little-recognized, unlisted casualty of the struggle for newsroom survival is the impact on an irreplaceable resource that citizens across America rely on: the public record of their communities as recorded by their local newspaper, radio or TV station, online newsroom or other news outlet.
Reporting Tools & Tips
My Favorite Tools: Lionel Faull
For our series about journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Lionel Faull of the London-based investigative newsroom and training outlet Finance Uncovered. He told GIJN’s Olivier Holmey all about the tools he uses to encrypt his communications, convert PDFs to readable text, find data on company ownership, sync his written and audio notes, and more.
Case Studies
How They Did It: Mapping the Fiery Chaos of DC’s 1968 Riots
For the 50th anniversary of the riots that rocked Washington, DC after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the Washington Post mapped the extent of the rioting throughout the city thanks to data compiled from declassified Secret Service reports and archival city planning documents.
How Africa Confidential Covers the Continent with a Subscription Model that Works
In an era of digital media disruption, Africa Confidential has avoided the complicated revenue tools many news media have been forced to experiment with, like soft or metered paywalls, crowdfunding, programmatic ads, blockchain systems or slashed costs and access fees. Instead, the London-based political news group has defied global trends by not only retaining its old school subscription model, but actually increasing its annual cost to a sky-high 902 British pounds. Rowan Philp writes for GIJN on AC’s secret to success.