Journalists need a better attitude if they want to drive innovation in the news business.
Author: Skye
NewsCube wins innovation grant
The NewsCube project has won a Walkley Innovation Grant. The project was one of six projects in the running for a share of $40,000 in seed funding to develop the project.
Teaching design to journalists
Outline of the UQ course in Journalism Design
Shortlisted for innovation
The NewsCube has been shortlisted for the Walkley Grants for Innovation in Journalism. It is one of six projects in the running for a share of $40,000 in seed funding.
Book: The Design Way
Design is a way of making sense of and creating change in a world that, despite the attempts of science and technology, is unpredictable.
Book: Thoughtful Interaction Design
Interaction design is “an extremely complex and difficult task” that normative methods are not sufficient to achieve
Book: Rebuilding the News
CW Anderson’s ethnography reveals journalistic moments of “confrontation, collaboration and collapse” as newsrooms struggled to move online and manage financial pressure.
Book: Can Journalism Survive?
Ryfe’s book examines journalistic practice in three American newsrooms over a five-year period and found that journalists ‘have not adapted very well’ to changes in their industry.
The NewsCube
The NewsCube is a platform that allows journalists to research, create and publish complex stories.