17/5/2013
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16/5/2013
DataKind: Data for Social Change
We interviewed DataKind founder Jake Porway about how the NGO is using data to foster social change.
2/5/2013
School of Data Journalism 2013: Looking Back in Awe
Looking back at four days of intensive learning and debates at the School of Data Journalism in Perugia with Storify.
27/4/2013
2013 Data Journalism Awards Finalists Announced
Who are the finalists of the 2nd edition of the Data Journalism Awards?
26/4/2013
Slides, Tools and Other Resources From the School of Data Journalism 2013
Overview of slides, tools, videos and other resources from the 2nd edition of the School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in…
25/4/2013
The Spanish Translation of The Data Journalism Handbook Is Out!
Announcing the release of the Spanish translation of The Data Journalism Handbook.
22/4/2013
Let’s Crowdsource a Database of Websites about Data Journalism!
Help us build an open database of websites about data journalism by adding your references.
19/4/2013
What I Learned about Data this Week
BBC’s Jonathan Stoneman reminds us that focus is still an essential element in modern reporting and that organizing one’s data is always vital.
12/4/2013
What I Learned about Data this Week
Jonathan Stoneman offers some advice to data journalism beginners and an account of his own experiences training in this field.
10/4/2013
Why Italy Is the Land of Opportunity for Data Journalism
Data journalism is catalysing growing attention in Italy but it is still in its infancy. Wired Italy’s Guido Romeo describes the state of this field…
28/3/2013
Bringing The Data Journalism Handbook to Brazilian Journalists
Announcing the Portuguese translation of The Data Journalism Handbook.
22/3/2013
What I Learned about Data this Week
Field notes from BBC’s Jonathan Stoneman on the world of data journalism.
20/3/2013
Announcing the School of Data Journalism 2013 in Perugia
Announcing the 2nd edition of Europe’s biggest data journalism event, the School of Data Journalism.
8/3/2013
Top 10 Most Tweeted Links from NICAR 2013
The most popular links shared via the conference hashtag #NICAR13.
6/3/2013
ProPublica Publishes Guides for Optimal App Design
ProPublica’s news applications team published a series of guides on GitHub. Newsroom app developers are invited to partake in this open-source project.
4/3/2013
Sports, Laughter, and Refinement at NICAR 2013 - Day 2
Friday afternoon at NICAR 2013 introduces sports and statistics, and a lot of learning and entertainment with the lightning talks.
4/3/2013
NICAR 2013 Day 2: PDF or Parse those Dreaded Files
The second day at NICAR in Louisville introduced affordable tools for converting PDF to useful file formats.
1/3/2013
Scraping into Louisville: NICAR 2013 - Day 1
Web scraping and Google Fusion Tables for trainers featured amongst the many sessions at the US computer-assisted reporting conference, NICAR.
27/2/2013
Opportunities and Challenges in Using Drones for Data Journalism: Interview with Matt Waite
Matt Waite explores new ways of doing journalism using drones, and finds a data journalism goldmine.
22/2/2013
LocalData: Empowering Communities and Legitimising Citizen-Based Datasets
Amplify Labs is developing a tool that seeks to revolutionise the way urban data is collected by local communities.
8/2/2013
Data Visualisation Tools and Trends to Watch: An Interview with Datavisualization.ch
Founding partner of Datavisualization.ch, Benjamin Wiederkehr, talks about tools, trends, dos and don’ts in data visualisation and journalism.
1/2/2013
Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice
We asked data journalists to tell us a bit about how they work with data. Here is what they said (excerpt from The Data Journalism Handbook).
16/1/2013
Amanda Cox on The New York Times’ Graphics Evolution: “The Future Has an Ancient Heart”
The use of data visualisation at The Times, according to Amanda Cox, is undergoing a dynamic and multi-disciplinary evolution.
21/12/2012
The Year in Data Journalism: Q&A with Alexandre Léchenet
What was the best piece of data journalism this year? Most interesting development? Biggest disappointment? We asked leading data journalists.
19/12/2012
The Year in Data Journalism: Q&A with Sarah Cohen
What was the best piece of data journalism this year? Most interesting development? Biggest disappointment? We asked leading data journalists.
13/12/2012
Best Practices and Coding Conventions: The NPR News Apps Team
Interview with NPR’s award-winning developer Christopher Groskopf about the best practices and coding conventions of the NPR News Apps team.
7/12/2012
The Year in Data Journalism: Q&A with Paul Bradshaw
What was the best piece of data journalism this year? Most interesting development? Biggest disappointment? We asked leading data journalists.
27/11/2012
Following Money and Influence in the EU: The Open Interests Europe Hackathon
Last weekend’s Open Interests Europe hackathon not only produced useful tools and maps, it also revealed possible leads for investigative reporting.
26/11/2012
The 3.11 Japan Quake: Looking Back at News and Crowdsourcing on Media Coverage Map
EmergencyJournalism.net’s Rina Tsubaki on the lessons from last year’s Japan earthquake and the role of social media and crowdsourcing.
20/11/2012
Hacking on a Shoestring: Bucharest’s Open Media Challenge
Organising Romania’s first multi-disciplinary hackathon presented numerous challenges, says Stefan Candea, but the results made it worthwhile.
15/11/2012
Swimming in the Data Stream
Australian data journalist Edmund Tadros says it’s time to lose your fear of spreadsheets and jump into the numbers.
13/11/2012
Data Therapy for Journalists
How do we best tell a data-driven story? What techniques should we use for presenting our data?
2/11/2012
Data Journalism à la Française: Interview with Le Monde’s Alexandre Léchenet
Le Monde data journalist Alexandre Léchenet talks about a new data journalism blog J’ai du bon data, open data in France and his greatest career achievement…
30/10/2012
Identified Issues, Positive Developments: Coverage from Crisis Mappers’ Conference
An article by Emergency Journalism’s Rina Tsubaki on the International Conference of Crisis Mappers, the future of humanitarian networks and issues…
29/10/2012
OpenNews: View Source
A post from Dan Sinker about a new initiative from Open News to compile code written by journalists, Source.
19/10/2012
Journalism for Developers
This article is for developers who are interested in journalism. It was inspired by jsforcats.com.
16/10/2012
A Data Journalist’s Life: Interview with Sarah Cohen
Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah Cohen discusses her career, working with data and difficulties along the way.
9/10/2012
Knight News Challenge Winner Will Make Historical Election Data Easily Accessible
Winners of the Knight News Challenge will collaborate with The New York Times and The Washington Post to create a database of US election results.
8/10/2012
ONA Winner Highlights 5 Ways to Create Interactives that Inform & Engage Readers
2012 Online Journalism Award winners Gabriel Dance and Feilding Cage on how to create an informative and engaging interactive.
4/10/2012
Four Lessons from Hacking Data for Hacks at O’Reilly Strata in London
What journalists and media organisations need to know about data journalism.
3/10/2012
The Evolving Newsroom: Q&A with the Telegraph’s Interactive News Editor
How are newsrooms evolving to better incorporate data and data-driven journalism? An interview with Conrad Quilty-Harper, the Interactive News Editor for…
26/9/2012
Debunking Myths with Data Visualisation - The Birth of Gapminder
Insights from Hans Rosling’s spectacular keynote talk at OKFestival last week on the birth of the Gapminder project.
24/9/2012
The First Translation of The Data Journalism Handbook Is Out!
Announcing the release of the first translation of The Data Journalism Handbook, a free, open-source book that helps journalists use data to improve journalism.
17/9/2012
What Kinds of Stories Can You Find in Data?
Like other forms of journalism, data journalism should be about stories. Based on his experience at the BBC, Martin Rosenbaum has drawn up a typology.
14/9/2012
Journalism Rebooted in Buenos Aires
A look back at Latin America’s largest event for journalists, editors, designers and software developers, the Hacks/Hackers BA Media Party.
5/9/2012
Why Community Matters for Data Projects at the New York Times
Why does community matter for data projects at the New York Times? Can data journalism help enlighten civil society? Editor Aron Pilhofer explains in an…
13/8/2012
How to Teach a Journalist Programming
Earlier this year I set out to tackle a problem that was bothering me: journalists who had started to learn programming were giving up. In setting out…
3/7/2012
Video: The Data Tsunami: when journalism becomes quantified
A video recap of a panel discussion addressing the question, “what is the recipe for doing good data journalism and why should we care about it in…
28/6/2012
The future of data journalism
In this Q&A, Data Journalism Handbook editor Jonathan Gray explains what data journalism is, how the handbook came about, and which data journalism…
27/6/2012
Video: Turning data into narrative: 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference
Exploring different strategies for finding and sharing stories embedded within datasets with an exciting panel of experts at the MIT-Knight Civic Media…
26/6/2012
Data journalism hits Vienna
A few free online resources from the Data.Journalism! conference that took place in Vienna this month.
21/6/2012
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
Understanding the potential of citizen engagement journalism through the Pachube pilot project.
13/6/2012
Knight News Challenge: Data is now open
Journalism and Media Innovation Program Director John Bracken writes about the Knight News Challenge: Data.
31/5/2012
And the winners of the Data Journalism Awards are…
This competition has been dubbed the “Pulitzer prize of data journalism.” Who are the winners?
31/5/2012
Video: Data Journalism Awards ceremony
Who were the winners of the Data Journalism Awards? Watch the video recording of the awards ceremony which took place in Paris on 31 May.
28/5/2012
Crowdsourced crisis mapping: How it works and why it matters
A few telling examples of how crowdsourced crisis mapping can help turn information and knowledge into action.
21/5/2012
Video: You Too Can Be a Data Journalist! Panel discussion at School of Data Journalism in Perugia
Introducing the Data Journalism Handbook and the last pieces of advice before leaving the International Journalism Festival.
14/5/2012
A look back at the Data Harvest Conference 2012
Over a hundred data journalists gathered in Brussels in the first week of May to share research methods, tips, tricks and new techniques for data journalism.
2/5/2012
2012 Data Journalism Awards nominees announced
See the full list of the 2012 Data Journalism Awards nominees…
28/4/2012
How to become a data journalist: School of Data Journalism - Day 3
Excel as data journalists’ best friend and a case study on E.U. structural funds for the fourth workshop of the EJC/OKF School of Data Journalism…
28/4/2012
The Data Journalism Handbook is finally here!
Introducing the Data Journalism Hanbook at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
28/4/2012
How to become a data journalist: The School of Data Journalism - Day 2
The second day of the School of Data Journalism in Perugia introduced FOI requests and visualisation tools.
27/4/2012
From CAR to data journalism: Past, present and future of journalism
An all-star panel to explore the history and development of data journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
27/4/2012
Data journalism can save your newsroom, but what from?
Business models, sustainability, trust and audience feedback. A peek into the second panel of the School of Data Journalism in Perugia, Italy.
27/4/2012
Video: How can data journalism save your newsroom?
Journalism is under siege. Traditional models are collapsing. Developing the know-how to use the available data more effectively, to understand it, communicate…
27/4/2012
How to become a data journalist: The School of Data Journalism - Day 1
An overview of the first day of the School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
26/4/2012
Video: News and numbers - from CAR to data journalism
In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to questions they were trying to answer. While this is still the…
23/4/2012
Data Journalism Handbook: Why is data journalism important?
What is in the Data Journalism Handbook? Here is an excerpt from the book where leading data journalism practitioners, advocates, and enthusiasts tell…
20/4/2012
A peek inside the Data Journalism Handbook
After several months of hard work, the Data Journalism Handbook is almost ready to be released. Editor Liliana Bounegru gives a peek inside the handbook.
18/4/2012
Generation Next: Six promising data visualization applications introduced at Show Me the Data 2012
Show Me the Data brings tutors, professionals and students together to discuss and showcase the latest developments in the world of data design.
5/4/2012
How to turn a spreadsheet into a data-driven community news platform: Introducing Homicide Watch
Chris Amico and Laura Norton Amico’s project started as a spreadsheet. Now it’s a community news platform.
4/4/2012
Poster about the Data Journalism Handbook for the Information Design Conference 2012
Visualizing the Data Journalism Handbook: infographic designer Lulu Pinney’s poster brings text to life.
3/4/2012
Illustrations for the Data Journalism Handbook
Editor Jonathan Gray unveils a sneak preview into the artwork for the upcoming Data Journalism Handbook.
28/3/2012
Facts not anecdotes: The value of data journalism according to Matt Stiles
Data journalist Matt Stiles talks about his work for the State Impact project and the importance of constantly keeping updated in the field.
23/3/2012
The School of Data Journalism is coming soon!
The School of Data Journalism is a series of panel discussions and workshops on various aspects of data journalism organised by the European Journalism…
15/3/2012
Why journalists should ‘show your work’ while learning & creating
Exploring the benefits of sharing your work as a journo-hacker and the “history” of this work ethos.
14/3/2012
Visualizations of space, social data and a bit of history at the 2012 InfographICs conference
A journey through the fifth edition of the InfographICs conference in the Netherlands: where visualization meets storytelling.
1/3/2012
NICAR12 presents: Six promising projects that take data journalism to a whole new level
A few projects really stood out at the NICAR 2012 conference as exemplifying some of the best that the developer community within journalism can do.
24/2/2012
Always walk before you run: Datawrapper breaks down barriers in visualising and publishing data
The recently launched data visualisation tool Datawrapper aims to meet the specific needs of journalists who work on a deadline and are not trained as…
21/2/2012
Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta 1 Launch Details)
After roughly six months of development, PANDA’s first beta version has been released. The beta version reached a level of usability that will demonstrate…
14/2/2012
The New British Invasion: Scraper Wiki hits the Big Apple
At our New York data camp, we set out to liberate data, teach people to liberate data, and find stories in data. About 100 people showed up for the event,…
6/2/2012
The Data Journalism Handbook: Final call for contributions
We are very close to a first complete draft of the book and we need your help to get there. We are looking for authors, editors and peer reviewers to draft…
3/2/2012
Open Data London presents: 5 exciting new data-driven projects
Monday 30 January saw the third Open Data London meet-up take place at the Centre for Creative Collaboration. The event was co-hosted by Kat Baybrooke,…
3/2/2012
Open Economics hack day models social progress in Italy
On Saturday 28 January an eclectic mix of coders, researchers, designers, academics and data journalists gathered at the Barbican Centre for an Open Economics…
1/2/2012
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation are pleased to invite you to the School of Data Journalism hosted at the sixth edition…
24/1/2012
The inverted pyramid of data journalism
I’ve been working for some time on picking apart the many processes which make up what we call data journalism. Indeed, if you read the chapter on data…
20/1/2012
First ever Data Journalism Awards open for submissions!
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is proud to announce the launch of the first annual Data Journalism Awards. As of yesterday, applicants are welcome…
15/12/2011
How to build news apps: Best practices from NPR
In the following video Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPR, previously data applications editor at The Texas Tribune, talks about best practices in building…
15/12/2011
‘Data journalism’ draws the line between the quick and the dead
Investigative journalism is being reinvented and reporters are doing their jobs in unimagined ways. ‘Data journalism’ is becoming the competitive…
15/12/2011
African News Innovation Challenge: $1 million in funding, but more about brains than money
It’s called the African News Innovation Challenge, and it has $1 million to award in start-up grants. Anic, which was announced in October, and had…
12/12/2011
Video: The Wikileaks effect: the rebirth of investigative journalism
The first day of this year’s News World Summit in Hong Kong closed with a session called ‘The Wikileaks effect: the rebirth of investigative…
9/12/2011
The data journalism lesson at the News World Summit
Data journalism was high on the agenda of this year’s News World Summit in Hong Kong. Watch the session “The data journalism lesson”…
6/12/2011
Digging deeper: An in-depth look at data journalism in the Netherlands
The EJC interviewed Jelle Kamsma, data journalist at NU.nl, about the data journalism operation at NU.nl and the state of data journalism in the Netherlands
30/11/2011
Google launches data journalism awards with GEN
Google announces the new awards programme at #news2011, the first news summit from the Global Editors Network
25/11/2011
Announcing the winner of the Data Journalism Survey prize!
The winner of the Data Journalism Survey prize is announced. The results of the survey have been published earlier this fall.
14/11/2011
RegioHack: data from the region
Jerry Vermanen, Editor of the Dutch regional newspaper, De Stentor, had the idea to organise a regional hack event, called RegioHack, introducing journalists…
14/11/2011
Video report: Data Journalism Handbook at #MozFest 2011
In the following video, the Data Journalism Handbook coordinators and contributors explain why a guide to data journalism could help revolutionise our…
14/11/2011
Hacks and hackers gather to write the first Data Journalism Handbook
Ravensbourne college is an ultramodern cubist design school which abuts the O2 arena on the Greenwich peninsula. It is perhaps an unusual and yet apt setting…
8/11/2011
