Mediagazer: 5 tips for getting started in data journalism (Troy Thibodeaux/Poynter)

6:25 AM ET, October 8, 2011

Top News:

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Sony Pictures Acquiring New Steve Jobs Biography For Major Feature Film — EXCLUSIVE: I've just learned that Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.

Discussion: CNET News, Electronista, The Next Web, New York Magazine and The Moviefone Blog, more at Techmeme »

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Steve Jobs and Apple vs. a free press — The man and his company's focus on control led to repeated fights with reporters. — In this June 9, 2008, file photo, Steve Jobs announces the introduction of the iPhone 3G during the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Discussion: San Francisco Peninsula …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Steve Jobs and the media: For the most part, it was a love affair

Discussion: Crikey, Poynter, Forbes and Gawker

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Steve Jobs and the continuing disruption of media

Discussion: MediaPost, The New Yorker Blog, Rolling Stone, New Yorker, AdAge, Forbes, CNET News, Online Journalism Review, Epicenter, PC Magazine, Adweek, iMediaConnection Blog, Fast Company, The Huffington Post and Webmetricsguru, more at Techmeme », Thanks:swagatsen

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Steve Jobs stops the presses one last time

Discussion: Cult of Mac

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Wall Street protests: liberal cable's tea party moment? — The two cable networks battling each other for the liberal mantle finally have a movement they can embrace with the kind of fervor Fox News reserved for the tea party: — Occupy Wall Street. — After more than two weeks …

Discussion: Poynter, Erik Wemple, Inside Cable News, TVNewser, Mediaite, Capital New York and On Media's Blog

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Police Clashes Spur Coverage of Wall Street Protests — The Occupy Wall Street protests, by design, began with little in the way of concrete goals or strategy. — But the protests in Manhattan, now in their third week, and in other parts of the country, have found two ways to draw attention to their cause.

Discussion: New York Times, Paul Krugman, The New York Observer and The Week

David Maris / Forbes:
Some Say Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aimless; Facts Say Otherwise

Discussion: On the Media, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, CJR, Betabeat and Capital New York

Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:

James Murdoch Must Leave News Corp. Board, Pension Body Says — Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch should leave the board of the media company in the wake of a hacking scandal at its U.K. newspaper unit, according to a group of British pension funds.

Discussion: Digital Spy and Future of Journalism

Ian Burrell / The Independent:
News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report ‘illegal activity’

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Telegraph, The New York Observer, Mogulite, The Raw Story, New York Magazine and Gawker

James Robinson / Guardian:
News of the World phone-hacking settlement agreed by Kelly Hoppen

Discussion: Press Gazette

Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Wapping's pseudo-union dog fails to bark as members face uncertain future

Troy Thibodeaux / Poynter:

5 tips for getting started in data journalism — Data journalist. Computer-assisted reporter. Newsroom developer. Journo-geek. If those of us who work in the field aren't quite sure what to call ourselves, it's little wonder that sometimes even the people who work beside us are puzzled by what we do.

Gabe Elsner / MediaShift:

TrueTies.Org Wants to Increase Transparency on the Op-Ed Page — The following is a guest opinion from Gabe Elsner of The Checks and Balances Project, which recently launched a new project aimed at increasing transparency at news outlets. — Every day, Americans read the opinion and commentary …

Discussion: CJR

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Examiner.com editor: ‘Plagiarism is inexcusable and we try our best to guard against it’ — Romenesko+ Misc. — Examiner.com vice president of editorial Travis Henry says he first learned about his contributors' plagiarism by reading yesterday's Romenesko+ post, “Examiner.com is caught ‘pulling a Daily Mail’.”

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Steve Myers / Poynter:

‘Storm’ video shows future of news in uninterrupted stream of our lives — Recent news events from Joplin to Tripoli have provided plenty of examples of how news has become a real-time experience, something you observe and discuss as it's happening rather than waiting hours or days to watch or read.

Discussion: GigaOM and Future of Journalism

Curtis Brainard / CJR:

The Scientist Closes — 25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last — Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and website focused on the life sciences, learned Monday that it would be their last.

Discussion: The Scientist, Nature and ScienceInsider

Burgess Everett / On Media's Blog:

Ex-CNN exec launches polling site — A bad economy and chaotic news industry didn't dissuade Eason Jordan from taking his start-up headfirst into the interconnected worlds of news, polling and social media. — In mid-September, the former CNN chief news executive and multiple Emmy winner launched a …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Sky News' Alex Crawford wins award for Middle East reports — Journalist Alex Crawford awarded the James Cameron Memorial Award for her reports on the Middle East and hailed as ‘outstanding role model’ for industry — Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford has received …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

B&N Retaliates After Kindle Gets 4-Month Exclusive On DC Graphic Novels — Kindle Fire owners (and anybody with a Kindle reading app) will be able to read bestselling graphic novels like Watchmen, Batman and V for Vendetta on their new devices, under the terms of a four-month exclusive deal DC Entertainment …