Webscraping
Lots of websites contain information that can be of great value to you as a journalist. But this information might change every day, and therefore it is impossible to keep track of it by hand. That’s why we let the computer do our work for us. This is called webscraping. At NRC Handelsblad, I have […]
Data mining
The web contains many interesting listst and databases. Grab them on your hard disk, in order to clean, calculate and analyse. Trainer: Luuk Sengers
Digging for global data
Food prices are rising steep; unemployment in the EU is going up, Sub-Sahara developing countries are doing well in ICT development. How do you check these statements, or find the data to sustain these statements? If you use Google keyword search je will miss 80% of the fun. Google indexes not more than 20% of […]
Stay tuned
RSSfeeds in all forms are a powerful instrument for journalists to cover a subject during a longer period of time. There are stand-alone RSSfeeds, like Omea Reader, or integrated readers, like the one Google offers. Both are useful in their own way, and you will learn how to successfully let them do boring and time-consuming […]
Managerstrack
On Friday Afternoon, immediately following the start of the conference at the Marriott Hotel, the European Investigative Journalism Conference will provide publishers, managers and editors in chief with a special ‘track’ of panel sessions, catered towards the needs of those in charge of news rooms and media outlets. You will have to sign up separately […]
Build your own website
JOURNALIST 2.0 Make yourself findable and searchable on the web. Marie-José Klaver will explain how you can use free tools and programs like WordPress, tagging, LinkedIn and Twitter to present yourself and your work on the internet. Trainer: Marie-José Klaver When? Friday November 21st, 3.45 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)
CSI Internet
Find hidden data in websites, documents and photo’s and learn more about authority & reliability of any given web source. Trainer: Henk van Ess When? Friday November 21st, 2.00 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)
Go get it, Google!
Learn how to formulate clever instructions for Google and endhance your chances that ‘the thing’ reports back with all the right answers. Trainer: Luuk Sengers
What meets the eye
This training gives basic tips and tricks for research to (historical) film-, photograph-, video- and sound files all-over-the world on the visible and invisible web. What are the best Internet sites? Blickx, European Film Gateway, Flickr, Pathe, IAMHIST, Internet Archive, Video Active. Which Google gadgets and other search tools you can use. A practical lesson […]
Online social networking
This session shows the immense possibilities of the social network sites for journalists who want to spice up their coverage with stories of real people. The data speak for themselves: Myspace (120 million users), Facebook (100 million), Linkedin (25 million). Also Dutch/Flemish social sites are very popular with Hyves counting more than 7 million users […]