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Matt Waite: To build a digital future for news, developers must be able to...
Editor’s Note: Matt Waite was until recently news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times, where — among many other projects — he was the primary developer behind Politifact, which won a Pulitzer...
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The year responsive design starts to get weird
Over the past year, the idea of responsive web design has taken hold in a growing number of newsrooms. The Boston Globe launched a paywalled version of the Globe as a responsive experience at the end...
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What new FAA plans will mean to the future of drone journalism
Editor’s note: If you’ve been at a journalism conference over the past year — or stood near the right Midwestern riverbed at the right time— you’ve probably heard about drone journalism. That’s the...
View ArticleMatt Waite: How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
Somewhere in middle school, I had convinced myself that I was bad at math. It was okay: My mom was bad at math too. So were lots of people I looked up to. “Bad at math” was a thing — probably even...
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The drone age is here, and so are the lawyers
Earlier this month, the BBC broadcast a story shot entirely on a drone. Not one second of imagery in the minute-long report from a massive protest in Thailand was from the ground. Not one human being...
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Fewer and fewer shut-off valves
Coming up with original ideas to write is hard. It’s expensive too. Human beings cost money to employ. Having them come up with original work and writing it all out racks up a bill. For instance, I am...
View ArticleNew rules governing drone journalism are on the way — and there’s reason to...
Today we got our first real look into what the FAA intends to do about regulating drones in U.S. airspace — and frankly, it’s surprisingly flexible and permissive given what the agency has required of...
View ArticleThe journalist’s guide to drones over (or crashing into) stadiums
In the past week, two drones have crashed into two separate stadiums in the U.S. — the first at the U.S. Open in New York, the second at a University of Kentucky football game. They’re unlikely to be...
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Why journalists interested in drones should be watching an FAA...
Chances are good you haven’t been following the day-to-day workings of the House Transportation Committee. But something happened there recently that should have journalists and journalism educators...
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In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any U.S. newsroom
In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States. That’s not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before....
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The people running the media are the problem
This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore...
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“I went to Node.js because I wished to live deliberately”
In Chapter 1 of Precision Journalism — what many consider to be the foundational text of data journalism — Philip Meyer wrote that in order for his vision to take off, first, editors would have to...
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