Posts authored by Joseph Smith:
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
What we learned at the International Journalism Festival
Sabina Bejasa-Dimmock, Sam Cutler, Samantha Gottlieb, Philip McMahon, Mario Savarese, Joseph SmithIn April, the Guardian’s Investigations and Reporting team were lucky enough to attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Here’s some stuff that we learned.
Thursday, 4 February 2021
How technology is powering Covid-19 investigations
Joseph Smith, Michael Barton, Reetta VaahtorantaGuardian journalists and software engineers worked together to hold the UK government to account over its response to the pandemic
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
How technology is powering election coverage
Michael Barton, Joseph Smith, Reetta VaahtorantaIn the second of three articles, we look at the role of software engineers in analysing online political advertising during the 2019 UK General Election
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
How technology is powering environmental reporting
Michael Barton, Joseph Smith, Reetta VaahtorantaIn the first of three articles, we look at how Guardian software engineers teamed up with the newsroom to investigate climate lobbying online
Thursday, 22 December 2016
Implicits and type classes in Scala
Joseph SmithWhat are implicits? What are type classes? And why do they go so well together? Here are the answers I wish I’d had before diving into the Guardian’s codebase
