Jun

28

Building a responsive site in less than 20 minutes

With all this talk lately of the new era of responsive design, I realized today that I’ve yet to create anything that’s actually responsive. Given that I’ve only pondered using it in the implementation of complex, database-driven news sites, the task of tweaking every level of CSS to fit perfectly into a responsive grid system [...]

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Apr

02

Should data viz be a specialty or a commodity skill in the newsroom?

An interesting question came up at last Wednesday’s Doing Data Journalism (#doingdataj) panel hosted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism here at Columbia’s J-School: Should there be data specialists in the newsroom, or can everyone be a data journalist? For New York Times interactive editor Aron Pilholfer, who participated in the panel, the question is [...]

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