Mediagazer: How to be a data journalist — Data journalism trainer … (Guardian)

5:40 PM ET, October 2, 2010

Top News:

How to be a data journalist — Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it — • Guardian data editor Simon Rogers explains how our data journalism operation works — Data journalism is huge.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:

The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook — Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title. — The movie, opening nationwide today, is not interested in the concept of social networking or the actual usage of Facebook.

Discussion: Bits, The New Yorker Blog, Anil Dash, New York Times and PE Hub Blog, more at Techmeme »

Adam Markovitz / PopWatch:

‘Social Network’: Natalie Portman was Aaron Sorkin's secret weapon — In The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) models Facebook on Harvard's legendary final clubs, private groups made up of some of the school's most privileged students. But the clubs are as secretive as they are exclusive …

Discussion: The Marquee Blog

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

‘Newspaper companies that will survive will not consider themselves newspaper companies’ — Dallas Morning News publisher's letter to staff on the paper's 125th anniversary — As we celebrate our 125th anniversary, I wanted to congratulate and thank each and every one of you for being a part …

Discussion: Dallas Morning News

Nieman Foundation News:

Nieman Curator Bob Giles to Retire — Cambridge, Mass. - Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard for the past decade, will retire at the end of the academic year in June 2011. — “It is not easy to leave a great institution and the wonderful people who make it so …

Discussion: Romenesko and Media Nation

Antonio Regalado / Technology Review:

Guerrilla Webfare — How unauthorized video producers are “brand-jacking” companies and forcing them to rethink the way they market. — Fernando Motolese, a creator of viral videos, recently approached French food giant Danone (known as Dannon in the United States) with an unusual proposition.

Hollywood Reporter:

CNN ousts Rick Sanchez over Jon Stewart rant — Anchor fired after giving controversial radio interview — CNN issued a statement Friday announcing that anchor Rick Sanchez has been let go from the network after giving a radio interview in which he insinuated Jon Stewart was a bigot and CNN was “run by Jews.”

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Times, Washington Post, Speakeasy, BlogPost, MyFox New York and Stand UP!, more at Techmeme »

Kelly McEvers / NPR:

In Iraq, Getting The Story Gets Tougher For Reporters … Baghdad is undergoing a kind of face-lift these days as officials spend hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation to host an Arab League summit next year. — Most of the hotels that are being gutted and redone …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post, gary scott and Journalism and the World

Scot Hacker / Knight Digital Media Center feed:

Is Your CMS a Bottleneck to Innovation? — Hundreds of journalists have moved through KDMC's digital media training programs, in which we show them how to produce cutting edge news content in non-traditional formats, from video to map mashups, custom widgets to slideshows, social media integration to standalone multimedia packages.