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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.
By holding a magnifying glass to systemic flaws in society, data journalism can encourage positive change. Conversely, when published without context or consideration for ethics, it can cause harm through the perpetuation of stereotypes and biases.
Perhaps better than in the early days of data journalism, we can understand the emergence...
If you’ve not seen Spotlight, the film about the Boston Globe’s investigation into institutional silence...
While many journalists balk at the idea of journalistic impact, in fact, contemporary journalism, as...
The daily refreshing of Five Thirty Eight’s interactive 2016 election map forecasts was all but...
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.
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
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Thank you for this article - it made me inspired. I'm a synesthete (seeing colours and shapes of...
Great motivational introduction.
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Great course! Lessons are really well organized, explanations are clear, and the exercises are...
