21 augustus 2021 om 10:09 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
At least three years ago
I had my first contact with Eric Hauch, founder and CEO of Authory. And I immediately decided to participate. But practising as a Dutch medical doctor for many years, I joined the journalist community much later in life. Would this Authory tool be fruitful? Being fascinated by so many topics my publications are scattered all over the place. Although I have an own website for many years. Surprise!
Polio
What a surprise to find hundreds of articles! My first scientific paper about my own experiences as a young doctor in an Intensive Care Unit. The 1978 polio epidemic in The Netherlands. Important to remember these (COVID19) days. Nowadays anti-vaxxers in the air. I also found my one and only publication for Foodlog on blockchain technology in the (food) supply chain.
Newsletter
The Newsletter makes Authority once more interesting for journalists in particular (will you follow me* from now on?). Newsletters are a very powerful tool for journalists, as explained in a recent course! You have my word, when I say that I am a Authory supporter from 2018 on. And I wrote about this last spring on the journalistic medium Reportersonline.nl. With the growing number of colleagues/subscribers, the platform will be more and more useful. Certainly, I still miss publications (articles) on Linkedin. Multimedia like audio (soundcloud) and video (YouTube) are part of my world. But conversation with the founders is always constructive. And innovation is key..
3 december 2016 om 10:16 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Ethan Zuckerman is director of the innovative MIT Civic Media Lab. He is keynote speaker on the first international conference exploring constructive elements in journalism. In the aftermath of this event on december 2th 2016 in Zwolle, The Netherlands (Hogeschool Windesheim) there is a opportunity to talk with him about the future of Obamacare. On the tapewrite platform you can listen to (< 6 minutes podcast) and see (pictures) of Ethan Zuckerman.
If you don’t have money in the US, you go to the Emergency Department and never pay for it
18 november 2013 om 6:58 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Metadata
Datamining
Wat gebeurt er met de kabel?
Metadata en/of Datamining, die vraag staat eigenlijk centraal bij de paneldiscussie. Vindt “Inlichtingenfusie” plaats? Begrippen als Spyware, NSA en Snowden passeren. Reiken de tentakels ook naar Nederland? Gaat het om het opsporen van (potentiële) terroristen. Of staan veeleer politieke en economische belangen op de voorgrond?
Glenn Greenwald (onderdeel video interview)
Aftappen?
De paneldiscussie trekt een goedgevulde aula van de Hogeschool Windesheim te Zwolle. Velen van de ruim 300 deelnemers aan de tweedaagse conferentie van Vlaams-Nederlandse onderzoeksjournalisten (VVOJ) zijn op zaterdagochtend 16 november 2013 present.
Metadata zijn bestanden die het digitale verkeer in beeld brengen (Pietje belt Jantje op een bepaald tijdstip, enzovoorts). Bij Datamining gaat het om het doorzoeken van grote databestanden op zoektermen (denk aan bermbom). Gebeurt dat aftappen ook via de vaderlandse kabel?
Paneldiscussie aula Hogeschool Windesheim
U-bocht?
Datamining (“opzuigen van data ten behoeve van datamining”) via de glasvezelkabel is in ons land verboden. Analisten bij de AIVD kunnen echter niet zien welke de bron is van berichten, vertelt ‘Heleen de Waal’ (een schuilnaam) . Op de foto is zij niet goed zichtbaar… (2e van rechts) De Trans-Atlantische kabel duikt op in Engeland, maar ook in Katwijk. Is het denkbaar dat Nederlandse inlichtingendiensten (AIVD en MIVD) via een U-bocht constructie (Engeland) aan dergelijke data kunnen komen? Een antwoord komt er niet tijdens de paneldiscussie. “We are living in interesting times’, aldus de door Margo Smit (Directeur VVOJ) eerder geinterviewde Glenn Greenwald (van de krant The Guardian en degene waarmee Snowden destijds contact zocht). De bijeenkomst is mogelijk gemaakt via het Legebeke Legaat, opgericht ter nagedachtenis aan de in 2008 plotseling overleden onderzoeksjournalist Gerard Legebeke (Argos).
2 november 2013 om 8:00 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Derailed Science
Journalism in Decline?
Science very similar to the banking sector
The emotions were running high. Science Journalism in decline? A memorable meeting. It certainly was due to that speaker Frank Miedema (scientist and director), who threw – right after the break – the cat among the pigeons. The venue was the Tinbergen Hall of the venerable KNAW ( Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More than 100 attendees (mostly journalists) had come to the title of this symposium (on the last day of October 2013). As chairman Peter Vermij ( former science journalist ) revealed, the title is rather doctored. The latest and brave version appeared on the screen: Tasks for Science Journalism….First it was “cultured meat, cancer and cold fusion”. Dirk van Delft (Museum Boerhaave , Leiden University and newspaper NRC Handelsblad) gave a nice timeline: where does science journalism come from? Hans van Maanen (freelance science writer) asked aloud the question: what went wrong? The status of the science journalist appears in editorial world to be low. How do we turn a bridge? In the coffee break there was much talk about this, but also about the drastic reorganization these days by publisher Sanoma .
Frank Miedema
Where are you, science journalist?
Miedema ( Dean and the Board UMC Utrecht ) challenged immediately after the break. Science these days is very similar to the banking sector. In a sense, there has been derailed science. “Did you read How Science goes Wrong, in The Economist”? Science is at least as important as the banking sector. Where are you, science journalist ? Fortunately, there was grumbling from the audience. Tonie Mudde (science editor at the Volkskrant newspaper) painted a different picture. With his “Diary of an Animal” he created a science soap and hype around a mouse in a Research Laboratory. To this end he was embedded in a Lab . This series yielded much response from readers and also convinced the editors of the magazine Quest. The reader is indeed interested in science, but we have to be creative. A call to action! .
5 juli 2013 om 8:50 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Branded Journalism
Lasting Attention
A must read..
…for journalists, publishers, brand owners, PR professionals and advertising creatives. Perhaps also for you? The 150+ pages book “The Editorial Age” deals with the crisis in media and advertising. “Brands and journalists have found each other” Amsterdam-based journalist Ebele Wybenga says in his book. However often it still looks like the separation of church and state. The role of the editor is paramount. Search algorithms underscore this more and more.
Frontcover
Editor
An advice: Think like an editor. So identify your niche audience, create an original voice, foster independant thinking, talk perspective (not product) and….if you can’t think like an editor, hire one. “The Editorial Age“
22 april 2013 om 9:33 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Spanningsboog
Jon Palfreman
Third Workshop Narrative Journalism, April 19th 2013, Amsterdam, Oba
Chairman Jair Stein had tot translate it for the mainly Dutch participants. “Story Arc” means “Spanningsboog”. Jon Palfreman is one of the famous speakers with award winning films on difficult technical subjects as the climate and healthcare. Mostly documentaries. Jon Palfreman: “Start at a dramatic point, flash back and follow through to the end”. Sound and Sights. They work differently however…
Jon Palfreman
Breaking Story
Breaking Story needs: incident, Tick-Tock, Ripple effects, Consquences and Point of reasonable Stability. A dry topic as Health Insurances and Health Policy. In fact it is a matter of life and death. A million dollar baby. It tells the story in retrospect. “Sick aroud America“. The title is very important. The mother recalls her pregnancy going almost wrong. She had tot stay weeks in de hospital. The baby had many, many medical problems. “The one million dollar baby”. “Terrifying numbers of bills”.
4 maart 2013 om 19:08 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Keynotespeaker
Infographicscongress 2013
March 1th 2013, Zeist, The Netherlands
“Infographics depends on three core skills” Alberto Cairo says. “Dealing with information (good journalism), Striving for functionality (good design) and Experimenting (good artist).
Four hundred journalist, designers, artists were listening to the compelling advices of Alberto Cairo, Author of ‘The Functional Art’ and Professor Infomation Graphics and Visualization at the School of Communication at the University of Miami (USA).
Alberto Cairo
What to do?
Learn about statistics and research methods. Be honest about what lies beyond your knowledge. Whenever it is possible, partner with people who have different specializations. Infographics is today the product of teamwork.
7 augustus 2012 om 16:46 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Big Data
Regionale Activiteit
“Datajournalistiek belangrijk”
Aldus Andre Vis, hoofdredacteur van De Twentsche Courant Tubantia. “Denk maar alleen maar aan Wikileaks” vult Jaap Lodewijks, adjunct-hoofdredacteur van de Stentor aan. “Regiohack.nl gaat graven op Internet”
Zo staat het aangekondigd op 15 september 2011 op de voorpagina van de regionale krant. In de publicatie wordt ook een een ‘event’ medio november 2011 aangekondigd. Ik onderken het welhaast historisch belang en meldt mij in Enschede aan als gast-bezoeker.
Twentsche Courant Tubantia / DeStentor
Hackathons
Tijdens de Regiohack blijkt Josien Kodde (Journalist Redactie Mens & Leven van de Twentsche Courant Tubantia ) een groepje om zich te hebben verzameld dat in korte tijd regionale Diabetes data wil verzamelen. Omdat dit mijn aandachtsgebied is kan ik nog wat suggesties doen. Maar het blijkt allesbehalve eenvoudig en het is ‘kort dag’. Data blijken vooral zeer gedateerd te zijn. Andere ploegjes hebben meer succes. Al met al krijgt de gehele aanpak een plaatsje in het kersverse ‘handboek‘ zoals de lezer kan zien. Maar ook in de social media is er aandacht.
In The Netherlands we had the Regiohack last year. It might be a milestone! Our Dutch Journalist Jerry Vermanen was one of the organizers. He now als contributes to the International Handbook that is being prepared.
Regiohack 2011
Newspaper
Datamining and -visualisation is flourishing. You can see in your daily Newspaper.
Now there is “The Data Journalism Handbook” coming. I expect that it will be important and interesting for many more people. Already you can have a look here.
Early Release
With this digital Early Release edition of The Data Journalism Handbook, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.
European Collaboration
This collaborative book coordinated by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation aims to answer questions like: Where can I find data? How can I request data? What tools can I use? How can I find stories in data? How can I make data journalism sustainable? It had a very successful start at the Mozilla Festival in London in November 2011 with fifty contributors, including data journalists and professors from the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Medill School of Journalism, and Cronkite School of Journalism. Additional contributors now include leading developers, analysts, FOI experts, and other practitioners from places like the BBC, City University London, Scraperwiki, Zeit Online, and many others. The project has received coverage in the New York Times, Liberation, Tech Crunch, World Editors Forum, and other major publications.
21 april 2012 om 7:27 uur door Jan Taco te Gussinklo
Mark Kramer
Narrative Journalism
Storytelling
Mark Kramer knows how to ‘buttonhole” Jan Taco te Gussinklo. Mark Kramer (Harvard) is a champion on (non-fiction) storytelling. A real Story Doctor. He is one of the famous speakers during the Second Dutch Conference on Narrative Journalism on april 20th 2012 in Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Engine of the Story
This years theme is very appealing. Many journalists and others jump in (full house). How to open the narrative toolbox and start your story’s engine. How do you build tension? Intriguing characters? Why does every story need conflict?
