Tag Archive for 'obama'

Graphic: White House staff salaries revealed

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Robb Montgomery
on November 14, 2009
in Blog and Default
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The Obama White House staff salaries are shown in this live data graphic visulization. If you updates the figures, the graphic will be updated instantly for the next Web reader.
The White House is uploading all kinds of public data to Socrata. I downloaded this set of numbers and built a Many Eyes graphic in about five minutes.

Source: SOCRATA: 2009 Report to Congress
This is an example of the kind of reporter-driven visualizations that I was teaching France24 journalists in my Web reporting seminars.

How I used Twitter to get 9,000 views on YouTube

Published
by
Robb Montgomery
on July 5, 2009
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Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.

One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.