Thousands of books and articles are written on data collection and analysis. Yet, the process of transcending ‘data’ to reach ‘insight’ – that is, ideas that have genuine explanatory power and can ...

In this edited extract from the forthcoming third edition of the Online Journalism Handbook I look at how a ‘triangulation’ approach to sourcing can help broaden story research and improve reporting.

Gary Angel is President and CTO at Semphonic. He co-founded Semphonic and continues to lead and develop the industry-leading online measurement practice. Under his leadership, Semphonic has become the ...

In qualitative research, purposive or theoretical sampling – that is, non-probability sampling that relies on expert knowledge of the population first to decide which characteristics are important to ...