The Media Standards Trust, BBC College of Journalism, and the science training for journalists programme at the Royal Statistical Society are holding a day of workshops and discussions on data and news sourcing on Thursday 3rd March, 1:30 – 5:30pm, at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St, London, EC1Y 8LX
The workshops will look at four areas:
Crowdsourcing and other innovations in news sourcing
o Chair – Professor George Brock (City University Journalism School)
o Paul Lewis (Guardian, Special projects editor)
o Professor Paul Bradshaw (City University/ helpmeinvestigate.com)
o Turi Munthe (Demotix)
o Bella Hurrell (editor, BBC online specials team)
Open government data, data mining, and the semantic web
o Chair – Martin Moore (Media Standards Trust)
o Professor Nigel Shadbolt (Web Science Trust)
o Chris Taggart (openlylocal.com)
o Alex Wood (BBC, notonthewires)
o Emer Coleman (Director of Digital Projects GLA, London Datastore)
Crime data, technology and crime reporting
o Chair - David Hayward (BBC College of Journalism)
o Michael Blastland (Author, science journalist)
o Dominic Casciani (BBC Home Affairs correspondent)
o Andrew Trotter (Chief Constable British Transport Police, ACPO)
o Conrad Quilty-Harper (Telegraph data mapping reporter, City Uni)
Expert sources in science and health
o Chair – Kevin Marsh (BBC College of Journalism)
o Dr. Ben Goldacre (Bad Science)
o Fiona Fox (Science Media Centre)
o Mark Henderson (The Times, science editor)
o Ed Yong (writer, Not Exactly Rocket Science)
The workshops will be rounded up in the early evening (6:30 – 8pm) by a lively public debate: ‘Too much transparency is bad for society.’ More details here
If you would like to attend one or both of these sessions, please visit the following links to register:
http://datasourcingworkshop.eventbrite.com/ – for the afternoon workshops (1:30 – 5:30pm)
http://datasourcingdebate.eventbrite.com/ – for the evening debate (6:30 – 8pm)
Any queries please contact camilla.schick@mediastandardstrust.org Tel: 0207 727 5252
