Some journalists approach algorithmic assistance the way one might consider hopping into a self-driving car: some are delighted, some are wary. How can software assist reporting, and how might a novic...
Martin Belam
Martin Belam is Social and New Formats Editor at the Guardian. He is editorial lead on off-platform initiatives like messenger bots, smart speakers, and on content designed to appeal to audiences on social media.
Previously he launched the Daily Mirror's data journalism site Ampp3d, and the company’s experiment with viral content and games on UsVsTh3m. He has spent over 15 years building digital and mobile products for brands like the Guardian, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC.
According to a Reuters Institute for Journalism report published in January, 79% of digital leaders say they will invest more in online news video this year than they did last year. As video operat...
Great Data Driven Journalism is too often associated with large and famous newsrooms, which invested in the field early and built big teams of news apps developers and data journalists (like the New Y...
New journalistic ventures such as HomicideWatch, PolitiFact, and the ConnectedChina project by Reuters have moved beyond the traditional inverted pyramid news story and have started new journalistic f...
