The Wild Wired West — How environment journalism can put sensors to use

Standard operating procedure, for the majority of journalists working with data, has been to analyze information generated by someone else; whether government agencies like the EPA, or researchers working in…

Sensors / The Laws, Ethics and Politics of Sensor Journalism

Emily Bell is the Director of The Tow Center, formerly the Director of Digital Content at The Guardian.

Prof. Joanne Gabrynowicz teaches space law and remote sensing law at the University of…

Sensors / Julie Steele on the Far Future of Data Sensors

This is a guest blog by Julie Steele, the Content Editor for Strata at O’Reilly Media. She is co-author with Noah Iliinsky of Beautiful Visualization (O’Reilly 2010) and Designing Data Visualizations (O’Reilly 2011).
She finds…

Sensors / Mark Hansen on A Landscape Of Historical Practice

Mark Hansen is the Head of The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University and has spent much of the past year setting up the Brown Center’s operations. He also teaches journalism courses that integrate data…

Sensors / John Keefe and Matt Waite on The Current Possibilities

John Keefe is the Senior Editor on the Data News Team at WNYC, New York Public Radio. The team helps infuse the station’s journalism with data reporting, maps and interactives, and recently led Radiolab’s Cicada Tracker…

Sensors / Liz Barry on Public Lab’s Balloon Mapping and DIY Spectrometer

The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science is a community that develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. Liz Barry, their director of urban…

Sensors / William Shubert on InfoAmazonia

Willie Shubert is the Senior Project Coordinator for Internews’ Earth Journalism Network. As a coordinator of a global network of environmental journalists, Willie helps make tools that enable people to connect with each other, find material support, and…

Sensors / Javaun Moradi with Some Pointers As You Wade In

Javaun Moradi is a product manager at NPR digital. He runs their APIs, which you can now learn by taking a Codecademy course. He’s one of the inventors of the Infinite Player, an experiment in continuous, personalized listening…

Sensors / Pierce Crosby & Rachael Johnson on Motion Sensing The Ballet

“Our project is a scientific look at what the arts might mean,” said Pierce Crosby. He stood beside Rachael Johnson onstage, presenting a project where they’d recently strapped motion sensors on the ankles of…

Sensors / Air Quality Egg

After a successful Kickstarter project where backers exceeded the group’s funding goal by $100,000, Air Quality Egg is one of the early citizen science projects working on pollution sensing. The point is “working toward a better understanding of the air we breathe,” said Albert…