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“Telling the story of Firestorm” – Jon Henley & Robin Beitra at Hacks/Hackers...
Carefully planned as a spectacular launch to the Guardian’s new Australian edition, “Firestorm” is a rich interactive telling the story of the astonishing forest fires that engulfed the town of...
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Guardian shows why mobile design has to work for commercial content as well...
We’ve heard a lot recently about the labels that need to be applied to “native advertising” or “advertorial” online. If user-testing over the years has taught me one thing, it is that you can always...
View ArticleHow much of Wolfgang Blau’s “office desktop” traffic will survive for brands...
Wolfgang Blau, director of digital strategy at the Guardian, recently tweeted about the shift to mobile apparent in news consumption over the last couple of years. He posed a challenging question – are...
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The more things change, the more they stay the same: Guardian design personas...
I was clearing out a load of stuff the other day, and discovered I still had some posters of the design personas that the Guardian were using the very first time I worked there. They were prepared by...
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So long, Contributoria
Sad news today that Contributoria, the crowd-funded journalism site, is to close. I always rather loved the idea of trying to bring together a community that would fund the best journalism that they...
View ArticleI’m (re)joining the Guardian
New year. New job. I’m delighted to say I will be joining The Guardian in London as Social & New Formats Editor in February. I’ve had an enjoyable few months working as a consultant with people...
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Tech Weekly podcast about the future of mobile news
Just a short note that this week I have appeared on the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, talking about mobile apps and the future of news.
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Yes, Trump’s tweets are a distraction – but one people clearly want to read
I have some sympathy with the view that Donald Trump uses his Twitter account to the do the “dead cat strategy” of distracting people and the media from more important issues. I think it is important...
View ArticleWhat Chris Moran learned from seven years as the Guardian’s audience editor
Every journalist should read every word of this: “What I learned from seven years as the Guardian’s audience editor“
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“That’s the wrong bloody TARDIS mate!”
Always good to be reminded how niche your specialist knowledge is. On Wednesday morning in the Guardian we had a spread looking at who might be the next Doctor Who, illustrated with a picture of the...
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3 ways we’ve been looking at working with algorithms at the Guardian
I’m at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and tomorrow I’ll be talking on a panel entitled “Collaborating with algorithms” alongside Greg Barber, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Christina Elmer...
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“Not just cool graphs: data journalism for investigations”– notes from the...
I’m at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and here are my notes from a panel about data journalism featuring my colleague Caelainn Barr alongside Mar Cabra, Daniele Grasso and Paula...
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“You are part of our gang”– running news social media accounts during an...
Having run social media accounts for both the Mirror and the Guardian during election and referendum campaigns, here’s a long rambling brain dump about the whole thing… I suppose one of the things that...
View ArticlePiers Jones
Terrible news this week that my former Guardian colleague Piers Jones has passed away. We worked on many projects together when I was doing information architecture and user experience work at the...
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You are never too old for a career first
I had my first ever magazine front cover story this week. It is for the B2B magazine InPublishing, and is about what it has been like being a journalist working from home during the pandemic – and...
View ArticleI went in to work today
I went in to the office today for the first time since 18 March. It was odd, because it basically reminded me of all the downsides of working at home no chit-chat change of scene is good oh my god I...
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“Thank you, America!”
“Thank You America” is one of my favourite Cabaret Voltaire tunes, so I nicked the title for this post. Regular readers may have noted that I’ve spent quite a bit of the last few months live blogging...
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Typerighter – the Guardian’s automated tool for spotting when I’ve strayed...
I posted about this on Twitter and there seemed to be lots of interest so here’s some more detail in an old-fashioned powerful blog post. The developers at the Guardian have recently added a new tool...
View ArticleThe moment has been prepared for – my first Guardian Doctor Who...
It’s a new year, and a big day for me personally. I’ve got the job in the worst way possible because we lost my friend and colleague Dan Martin earlier this year, but I’m taking over the Guardian...
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