Category: Journalism

Raconteur

Your personalisation strategy needs a shake-up (Raconteur)

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Post date February 4, 2020
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A piece about whether or not personalised marketing is working, for Raconteur’s Special Report on Personalisation.

CityMetric Journalism

Which London borough has the worst pubs? (CityMetric)

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Post date September 11, 2019
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Some extremely important data journalism on where to find the worst pubs in London.

CityMetric Journalism

Here’s the longest you could get trapped in the train doors for on every London Underground line (CityMetric)

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Post date July 22, 2019
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A man got stuck in the doors for a significant length of the Northern Line so I attempted to work out the longest possible you could get stuck like that on the entire tube network.

Journalism The Guardian

Of course the Victorians walked faster. They didn’t have Instagram and map apps (The Guardian)

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Post date April 30, 2019
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/30/victorians-walked-faster-map-apps-ordnance-survey

Journalism New Statesman

The Oscars last went hostless in 1989. It ruined a man’s career (New Statesman)

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Post date February 7, 2019
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2019/02/oscars-last-went-hostless-1989-it-ruined-man-s-career

Journalism New Statesman

The rise and fall of the point-and-click adventure game (New Statesman)

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Post date January 7, 2019
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/rise-and-fall-point-and-click-adventure-game

Journalism New Statesman

“Lord of the Rings is racist about orcs” is not an important new front in the Culture War (New Statesman)

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Post date November 27, 2018
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/11/lord-rings-racist-about-orcs-not-important-new-front-culture-war

Journalism New Statesman

Are budget airlines really charging families to sit with their own children? (New Statesman)

Post author By Ed
Post date November 22, 2018
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/business-and-finance/2018/11/are-budget-airlines-really-charging-families-sit-their-own

CityMetric Journalism

Do British cities have grid systems? We used science to find out (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date July 25, 2018
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I used OSMnx, Geoff Boeing’s amazing Python library for analysing street networks, to look at how orderly the streets are in various UK towns and cities.

Journalism New Statesman

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America is a fitting metaphor for the US, but unsatisfying TV (New Statesman)

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Post date July 19, 2018
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-s-who-america-fitting-metaphor-us-unsatisfying-tv