The Data Journalism Handbook 2
Towards a Critical Data Practice
What is data journalism? What is it for? What might it do? What opportunities and limitations does it present? Who and what is involved in making and making sense of it?
Produced by European Journalism Centre and Google News Initiative
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Duration
Introduction
- Introduction 20 min
Doing Issues with Data
- Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem 4 min
- Multiplying Memories While Discovering Trees in Bogota 4 min
- From Coffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations into How the Poor Feed the Rich 4 min
- Investigating Extractive Industries in Peru n/a
- Mobilising for Road Safety in the Philippines n/a
- Contextualising Carbon Emissions n/a
- Engaging Publics around Data Reporting on the Arab world with Instagram n/a
- Using Data Science and Visualization to Explore Segregation in the United States n/a
- Counting Transgender Lives n/a
Assembling Data
- Documenting Land Conflicts Across India 5 min
- Alternative Data Practices in China 14 min
- Reassembling Public Data in Cuba: How Journalists, Researchers and Students Collaborate When Information Is Missing, Outdated or Scarce 8 min
- Narrating a Number and Staying with the Trouble of Value 19 min
- Structured Thinking: The Case for Making Data n/a
- Making Data with Readers at La Nacion n/a
- Making Data for Investigations at Thomson Reuters, openDemocracy and Greenpeace n/a
- Mapping Pollution in Indian Cities n/a
Working with Data
- Accounting for Methods in Data Journalism: Spreadsheets, Scripts and Programming Notebooks 16 min
- Ways of Doing Transparency in Data Journalism n/a
- Data Journalism: What's Feminism Got to Do With It? n/a
- Making Algorithms Work for Reporting n/a
- Coding in the Newsroom n/a
- Computational Reasoning at Full Fact and Urbs Media n/a
- Data Methods in Journalism n/a
- Exploring Relationships with Graph Databases n/a
- Text as Data: Finding Stories in Corpora n/a
- Online Devices and their Research Affordances for Data Investigations n/a
- How ICIJ Deals with Huge Data Dumps like the Panama and Paradise Papers n/a
Experiencing Data
- Data Visualisations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday Engagements 16 min
- Searchable Databases as a Journalistic Product 15 min
- The Web as a Medium for Data Visualisation n/a
- Developments in the Field of News Graphics n/a
- Understanding Conflicts with Data Comics n/a
- Data Journalism for TV and Radio n/a
Investigating Data, Platforms and Algorithms
- Telling Stories with the Social Web 14 min
- The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation 17 min
- Algorithms in the Spotlight: Collaborative Investigations at Spiegel Online 13 min
- How Do Platforms See Humans? n/a
- Investigations into the Digital: Reporting on Misinformation, Platforms and Digital Culture at BuzzFeed News n/a
- Telling Data: Digital Methods for Analysing Web Trackers and Other Natively Digital Objects n/a
Organising Data Journalism
- Archiving Data Journalism 7 min
- Data Journalism’s Entanglements with Civic Tech 6 min
- Data Feudalism: How Platform Journalism and the Gig Economy Shape Cross-Border Investigative Networks n/a
- Data Journalism in the Newsroom n/a
- Data Journalism Culture n/a
- Organising Cross-Border Data Journalism Initiatives: Case Studies in Africa n/a
- A Decade of Data Journalism: 2009-2019 n/a
- Open Source Coding Practices in Data Journalism n/a
- Data Journalism and Gender n/a
- The #ddj Hashtag – Eunice Au (GIJN) and Marc Smith (Connected Action) n/a
- Data-Driven Editorial? Considerations for Working with Audience Metrics n/a
Training Data Journalists
- Data Journalism By, About and For Marginalised Communities 9 min
- Teaching Data Journalism at Universities in the United States n/a
- Data Journalism MOOCs in Turkey n/a
- Hackathons and Bootcamps in Kyrgyzstan: Reflections on Training Data Journalists in Central Asia n/a
- Data Journalism, Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery n/a
Situating Data Journalism
- Genealogies of Data Journalism 15 min
- Data-Driven Gold-Standards: What the Field Values as Award-Worthy Data Journalism and How Journalism Co-Evolves with the Datafication of Society 18 min
- Data Journalism with Impact 12 min
- Beyond Clicks and Shares: How and Why to Measure the Impact of Data Journalism Projects 14 min
- The Economics of Data Journalism n/a
- The Datafication of Journalism n/a
- Forms of Data Journalism n/a
- Data Journalism and its Publics n/a
- Data Journalism: In Whose Interests? n/a
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty n/a
Reflections
- What is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys 15 min
- Statisticians and Journalists: Tales of Two Professions n/a
- Data Journalism and Digital Liberalism n/a
- Afterword: Data Journalism and Experiments in Reporting n/a
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The Data Journalism Handbook
When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. Explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.
This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you’ll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both.