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In this episode, we chat with Sandeep Junnarkar, Director of Interactive Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He tells us about his journey into code launching the New York Times on the web, what data journalism is and how to do it, and why it’s important to tell stories through code. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) jQuery fuzzywuzzy gender-guesser Beautiful Soup Hate Index JSON D3 JavaScript Python Excel Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Lodash NLTK pandas
South Asian Journalists Association presents another in its series of 75+ BlogTalkRadio webcasts... In a bid to help journalists cover underreported issues and stories about South Asia or the South Asian Diaspora, SAJA is offering upto $20,000 in funding with its flagship SAJA Reporting Fellowships (SRF) program, now in its fifth year. If you are interested in applying for the fellowship but have questions about what kind of stories get funded, what the fellowship pays for, the timeline for completing the work, etc., join Sandeep Junnarkar, SAJA's awards and fellowship chair and Jigar Mehta, SAJA president and former SRF winner, who will provide answers to these and other questions. Ria Misra and Matt O'Brien, 2009-2010 fellows, will also be on hand to answer questions about the fellowships. More on the fellowships at http://bit.ly/srf2011 * questions to sjnews at gmail.com
SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Assn, presents a series of interviews with its leadership. In this episode, meet Sandeep Junnarkar, SAJA's new president. He is a professor at the City University Graduate School of Journalism and a leading expert on online media. He'll be interviewed by SAJA co-founder Sree Sreenivasan. Send questions in advance to saja@columbia.edu; recordings will be archived at SAJA.org
Sandeep Junnarkar and Hank Sheinkopf kick off "Election 2.0", a new BLL series tracking the election campaign as it plays out online. Also debuting, "New York from the ground up" with a freelance farmer in DUMBO. Plus, the MTA goes green.