Streamline Training & Documentation: 21st Century Journalism XXIII: The Reporters' Cookbook

Monday, September 17, 2007

21st Century Journalism XXIII: The Reporters' Cookbook

The Reporters' Cookbook "is for reporters to share code, examples, tutorials and other bits of information related to the practice of journalism, especially computer-assisted reporting."

The site is a wiki, meaning it can be edited by anyone who registers. Sections of content include:

Bits of useful code

Perl scripts, Python scripts, VBA code, Firefox goodies, and (assuming contributions are forthcoming) SQL

Databases

Excel spreadsheets

Hardware (PCs, scanners, tape recorders, PDAs)

Mapping

Accessing and using public records

Statistics and statistics software

Computer software and Web tools

Applications for placing content on the Web

Social network analysis

Writing and editing tips

As with any wiki, the site's content is dynamic. If you want to keep up with changes, you can do so by:

Subscribing to the "recent changes" page in your favorite RSS reader. The RSS feed will notify you of all updates and show you what they were.

Adding pages that you are particularly interested in, to your personal "watchlist" (one of the wiki tools accessed via the BluWiki Toolbox, which appears at the bottom of each of the Cookbook pages).

For anyone interested in improving in the area of computer-assisted reporting (CAR), the Cookbook is an excellent source of ideas and guidance.

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