Posts authored by Michael Barton:
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
How technology unlocked the secretive power of ‘Queen’s consent’
Michael BartonHow Guardian developers used web scraping to investigate the secretive parliamentary procedure
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
