Internships

• "The more clear you are about what you're wanting to get out of an internship, the more likely it is you'll get something useful."
  • Portfolio pieces
    • Go for it, but don't be disappointed if not.
  • Contacts
  • Career navigation
  • Publication map
  • Skill tips
  • Specialist knowledge
    • Unlikely in 1-2 weeks
• Each publication has a specific structure, and the more you can understand that, the better off you'll be and the more you'll learn

Scraping

• Tools:
  • OutWit Hub
  • Needlebase
  • Scraperwiki
  • Google Spreadsheets
  • Formulae
• Walkthru using Google Docs (=import)
  1. Open a spreadsheet
  2. In A1, type the URL of a page with a table.
  3. In cell A2, type: =ImportHTML(A1, "table", 1)
  4. Function importHTML($source, $element, $index)
     • Source = Where you're getting data from. Can be a spreadsheet cell.

Robin Hamman, Director of Digital, Edelman (London)

Visiting Fellow of Journalism, City

To preface this, I've never liveblogged a lecture and figure this would be a good place to start. Note that my Macbook Pro is getting old and I can only manage about an hour and a half of battery life, which might make this a touch challenging when combined with the non-functional power outlets in the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre. Please be kind...

For more information -- http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2011/oct/heather-brook-civic-journalism-wha...

Interesting topics:

Photography in court -- in Britain, court sketches only; must be done from memory outside of court. Ken Clarke (sp?) said there may be some changes in terms of what's allowed in the future.

Rio Ferdindand v. Mirror Group -- Look at the judgement, Judicial Communications Office.

Sign up for: Adjudications from the PCC Monthly Bulletin, OFCOM; inforrm