April 1, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
Larry Birnbaum likes to tell stories from data. “It is clear that there is a lot of data and a lot of stories in that data, but it is not easy to find them,” he told delegates at INMA’s Big Data for Media conference at Google London...
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March 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Helena Bengtsson, Editor of Digital Projects at the Guardian newspaper, does not like the term, Big Data. “I don’t talk about Big Data,” she told the audience at the Big Data for Media Conference at Google London last week....
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February 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Alexandre Léchenet
Swiss Leaks’ investigation into secret HSBC banking files is the latest example in a growing list of successful cross-border journalistic collaborations. The HSBC files were obtained by an international group of news outlets, including...
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February 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
The first national study of data journalism in Germany reveals that the sector is still small, but has potential. The qualitative study found that data journalists typically consider themselves to be society’s watchdogs. They usually...
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November 12, 2014 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Data journalism is being increasingly promoted and supported by media organizations and universities in Poland. Interactive data platforms have recently been launched by two of the country’s biggest newspaper groups, and academic courses...
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November 4, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Thomas Schmidt
Campaigning for the 2014 US mid-term elections has been largely negative and confrontational. Candidates have depended less on traditional media to get their political message across, relying instead on data-driven journalism, statistics,...
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October 30, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
Journalists and researchers are increasingly asked to understand, and interpret, vast amounts of data. Some of the most important recent public interest news stories were discovered hidden amongst complex statistics. As our understanding...
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July 14, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Paulina Pacula
Journalists cannot operate unless they can deal with data, according to Nils Mulvad associate professor at The Danish School of Media and journalist. Mulvad, who also runs a data analysis company Kaas and Mulvad, said it has now become a...
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April 23, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Antonio Rossano
A new website has harnessed the power of data journalism to illustrate how, when and where journalists have been threatened in Italy. Italian graphic designer Isacco Chiaf and journalists Jacopo Ottaviani and Andrea Fama have used data...
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