December 12, 2019

Say something nice about a journalist

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Alex Brae, who writes The Spinoff’s  daily news summary  (which you should sign up for), is having “Say something nice about a journalist” week.

As a site that mostly specialises in not saying nice things about journalists, we should probably do the same. Here’s a selection: I’ve probably forgotten some.

  • Kirsty Johnston has had a wide range of important stories this year, and is a good reason for subscribing to the Herald.
  • The Herald data journalism team: Chris Knox and Keith Ng (Keith also did some non-data-journalism in Hong Kong)
  • Jamie Morton, the Herald science reporter, has reported a lot of interesting and important science.
  • Farah Hancock has written some very good environmental and health stories for newsroom:  most recently, on the claims that a secret lab had found huge amounts of 1080 in some dead rats when Landcare didn’t, but also on pharmacies pushing homeopathic non-remedies, and on the measles outbreak
  • Eloise Gibson, also of newsroom, for her coverage of Sir Ray Avery and how some of his inventions are progressing and being evaluated, and for stories about radiata pine (big carbon sink) and about water-quality modelling
  • Joel MacManus had a very good piece at Stuff about algorithmic inputs to parole and sentencing
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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