Profile: Jonathan Frost
- Name Jonathan Frost
- Location York
- Twitter: @Frost_J
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- Email: jonathan@wannabehacks.co.uk
- Website: http://www.ocqur.com
Profile
Jonathan is a digital journalist and graphic designer. He is currently a second year student at the University of York, studying English Literature and Linguistics. He is Founder and CEO of Ocqur, a platform for breaking news, which is due to launch a product later this year.
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Five tips for getting an idea off the ground
Starting a new project is always fun, but sometimes the barriers to starting seem too high to make anything realistically achievable. It’s too easy to get caught up in the details and fail to make progress, no matter how good
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The local advertising dilemma
So, the classifieds are dead, and no one wants to advertise local papers any more because sales are dwindling, and it’s too expensive compared to Google Ads, or other forms of digital marketing. Jon posted a while back about his
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CV Workshop
The Hacks CV clinic is back! This time, the CV of student journalist Kieran Corcoran, editor of the Cambridge Tab, is being put under the microscope. It’s been brutally condensed to one page, and is packed full of good experience. That
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Over my dead body: paying for the news
The last session I attended at the Open Weekend was arguably the most interesting. It posed a question about what readers are willing to give back to the Guardian: data, time, or money? Most members of the audience, especially the
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Starting over with digital news
There’s been plenty of buzz over the last couple of weeks about the launch of the new ITV News site. Previously, it was a very watered down offering, and no match for BBC or Sky, as you might expect. Both
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CV Workshop
Today, this clean two page Word document based CV is up for criticism! As usual, don’t hold back. If you want to go next, email me your CV: jonathan@wannabehacks.co.uk. Some things that spring to mind for discussion: – Is the
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Redefining local media: One & Other
“We’ve set ourselves a big task: to reinvent the industry. That’s not just for the sake of it, it’s because we think it’s broken as it is, and it has a lot more potential. There’s a whole generation that are
15. March, 2012
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Visual.ly and the future of data visualisations
Over the last week, infographic community site Visual.ly launched a tool that allows users to generate their own infographics by inputting data. Currently there are only a few limited designs, and all require data from Twitter or Facebook to measure
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Should we embrace accountable commenting?
Facebook comments are easy to integrate, and will, I hope, help to raise the level of discussion on www.nouse.co.uk (the student rag, where I’m Web Editor). But they sacrifice anonymity in the process, and could drive comments that should be
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