Coding & data journalism resources for journalists

Al Willmott — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:30:57 +0000

Here are several free resources that could be useful for journalists interested in online media.
In the data journalism realm, there is the Data Journalism Handbook:

School of Data provides courses in how to source and visually present data.

A final resource to watch and try is from the Codecademy startup, which provides free tutorials in how to use HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Python and several APIs including YouTube.

Mozilla launches Popcorn Maker, a Web-based remix tool

Al Willmott — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:30:29 +0000

This weekend at Mozilla Festival London, Mozilla launched its Popcorn Maker tool.

Based on the Popcorn.js library, Popcorn Maker allows users to pull web-based elements like video, text, images and maps into a timeline. This is an early version of the Popcorn Maker but it is promising because it uses open standards like CSS and HTML 5, is free to use and is browser-based. This sets it apart from proprietary tools such as Flash.

This is an example of what the young hosts of WNYC’s Radio Rookies made with Popcorn Maker:

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/y7_

You can remix the Radio Rookies’ piece here to get a sense of how Popcorn Maker works.

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Coding & data journalism resources for journalists

Mozilla launches Popcorn Maker, a Web-based remix tool