Author: Natalie Harrower

Hacks/Hackers Workshop: How to ask questions & build great designs

As 2013 drew to a close, Hacks/Hackers Dublin held a pre-holiday meetup at the Irish Times building. This was the second meetup for the group, which was established in the summer of 2013, and it drew over 40 members to a team-building workshop facilitated by Justin Ferrell, journalist and Fellowships Director of Stanford University’s innovative […]

Why do we need an Irish survey on journalists’ use of social media?

National surveys on the use of social media in conducting professional journalism have been conducted for a number of countries, and the findings are insightful. For example, Cision & Canterbury Christ Church University’s Social Journalism Study 2011, that looked at ‘perceptions and use of social media among journalists in the UK’, found that 97% of […]