Data Handbook 1
The Data Journalism Handbook was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism’s leading advocates and best practitioners.
Databases can be so much more than just a place to find stories. Why not make a database the story? To showcase their storytelling power, we looked at 7 of the community's favourite examples of journalistic databases.
In the first edition of the Data Journalism Handbook, published in 2012, data journalism pioneer...
While computer-assisted reporting was considered a practice exclusive to (investigative) journalists, data journalism is characterized...
I do data journalism in countries where things are widely considered to be going badly...
Why should anyone care about the history of data journalism? Not only is “history” a...
Perhaps better than in the early days of data journalism, we can understand the emergence...
Data visualisation
Charts and maps have become ubiquitous in todays newsrooms. They convey stories with numbers much better than text alone does and they are shared easily. But not every journalist is a numbercruncher or a graphics designer. And a lot of newsrooms, especially smaller ones, don’t have the means to employ graphic journalists that can craft charts and maps. In this course we introduce and learn to use some tools every journalist can adopt to produce graphics that can support or carry a story.
Editor
Madolyn Smith is an Editor for the European Journalism Centre's Data team.
Assistant professor
Brent Walth teaches investigative reporting at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
Science reporter
Peter is a science reporter at BuzzFeed News who teaches investigative journalism in the Science Communications program at UC Santa Cruz and data visualization at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
Data Journalist
Data journalist focused in Central America
Fantastic article, and a very original approach. Thanks for writing it. I just wonder how things...
I can not believe there are more comments on this. This is a a very informational article that...
Fantastic Newsletter issue. Thanks for providing all this for free.
Hi, I think it's a very good course for journalists. I only had one concern, since she says that...
Thank you for this article - it made me inspired. I'm a synesthete (seeing colours and shapes of...
Great motivational introduction.
hier steht gar nicht, wer den Artikel geschrieben hat, er war es:...
Great course! Lessons are really well organized, explanations are clear, and the exercises are...
