Category Archives: Video

Animated map of Auckland’s buses and ferries

By Julie Starr | Published: January 20, 2011

I love where Chris McDowall is going with his animation and visualisation work and look forward to seeing more from him. He’s published on Sciblogs an animated map of Auckland’s buses and ferries over a single day. An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo. The animation begins at 3am [...]

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Guardian talks about its handling of Wikileaks cables (video)

By Julie Starr | Published: December 9, 2010

5′ video from the Guardian about how its journalists are handling Wikileaks cables and editing them for publication. (If video is not displaying, you can see it here)

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Kinetic type in video journalism

By Julie Starr | Published: November 1, 2010

I enjoyed this post from Lauren Rabaino on 10,000 Words about the use of kinetic type in video storytelling and how it can be used in journalism. There’s huge value in being able to tell a story that people will read all the way through– from start to finish– and then share with all their [...]

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Watch this: Journalism in the Age of Data

By Julie Starr | Published: October 31, 2010

Pleased I made time this weekend to watch this documentary on data journalism by Geoff McGhee. I came across it on Flowing Data (thanks guys:) who name-check some of the people interviewed: Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viègas kick things off with some of the work they did with IBM. Then it’s Ben Fry from Fathom, then Jeffrey Heer [...]

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