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The State of Data Journalism Survey 2023
What are the biggest trends and challenges for data journalists worldwide? The answers can be found by checking out the latest results from our 2023 annual industry survey.
Telling climate stories through a solutions and data lens
How solutions storytelling can engage local communities on mitigating the climate crisis
The time is now for journalists to halt the doom and gloom narrative around the climate crisis and instead reframe the narrative with a solutions approach. Journalist Sherry Ricchiardi examines how to tell such solutions stories with data by highlighting case studies from Unbias The News and the BBC.
How to approach environmental investigations with OSINT
Hear what it takes to bring open source data to uncover the invisible
Our latest blog sums up our Conversations With Data podcast episode on covering environmental investigations with open source intelligence (OSINT). We sat down with Sam Leon from Data Desk and Ben Heubl from Süddeutsche Zeitung who explained what it takes to uncover environmental wrongdoing with satellite data, maps and more.
Here's what we learned from our podcast series on environmental justice
In our latest Conversations With Data episode, we spoke with two award-winning journalists covering race and environmental justice. The pair explain how data and solutions journalism inform their reporting. They point to some excellent resources to support your knowledge of the intersection between race and climate issues.
Reshaping how we visualise the climate crisis
How people interpret the climate crisis is being reimagined by a team of researchers, designers and journalists. The result is a new dashboard visualising climate metrics in a new light. Writer Duncan Geere explains how it all came together and what it means for climate journalists.
Data gives voice to women on climate change
How to cover the climate crisis with a focus on gender
Scientific evidence clearly shows that women bear the brunt of climate change, yet until recently, scant attention has been paid to their plight. In many instances, the data are there, waiting to be discovered. Sherry Ricchiardi examines how to cover this pressing topic with solutions reporting underpinned by data.
Climate Journalism Award
Winners announced
The Climate Journalism Award ceremony took place in October 2023 in Lisbon at the News Impact Summit. Hosted by the European Journalism Centre and sponsored by Google News Initiative, the award attracted 181 entries from 46 countries. Check out the winning entries of the five award categories.
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 sense of it? This book is a collaborative experiment responding to these and other questions.
Verification Handbook +Translations
For Disinformation And Media Manipulation
The Verification Handbook brings a fresh new angle to the extremely relevant topics of misinformation and disinformation. The book is available for free download in English, Arabic, Turkish, Italian and German.
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Climate change through a solutions and data lens
How solutions storytelling can engage local communities and bring local reporters together to solve the climate crisis.
New climate metrics for new climate conversations
New metrics and visualisations are being developed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, designers and journalists to reshape how we interpret the climate crisis and its impact on people's daily lives.
Data gives voice to women on climate change
Scientific evidence clearly shows that women bear the brunt of climate change, yet until recently, scant attention has been paid to their plight. In many instances, the data are there, waiting to be discovered.
Kill switch: reporting on and during internet shutdowns
What can data journalists do to report on Internet shutdowns, which are becoming increasingly common by governments? This article provides a guide with real-world examples you can use to raise your voice.
Putting data back into context
Data are never neutral ‘givens’, but always situated in a particular context, collected for a particular reason -- and it’s crucial that data journalists understand these.
The unspoken rules of visualisation
Designers often follow a set of strict conventions when creating visualisations. Kaiser Fung examines the fundamental rules of data visualisation, why they are important, and when it is okay to break them.
Reporting beyond the case numbers: How to brainstorm COVID-19 data story ideas
While many journalists around the world report the daily infection rate and death toll of COVID-19, audiences are seeking other stories that show the impact of the virus on their lives. How can journalists tell those wider stories with data?
The essential lies in news maps
In order to display three-dimensional world we live in, journalists are forced to distort reality. And every map does so in its own way. Maarten Lambrechts looks at commonly used maps and how to avoid being misled by them.
The essential lies in news maps
In order to display three-dimensional world we live in, journalists are forced to distort reality. And every map does so in its own way. Maarten Lambrechts looks at commonly used maps and how to avoid being misled by them.
Putting data back into context
Data are never neutral ‘givens’, but always situated in a particular context, collected for a particular reason -- and it’s crucial that data journalists understand these.
Spreadsheets for journalism
Many journalists see themselves as “word people” and shy away from writing about numbers. Brant Houston shows how to embrace math with an overview of spreadsheets and functions for beginners.
Designing data visualisations with empathy
How do you get audience members, much less the journalists presenting a story, to walk a mile in the shoes of a dot? Or a bar chart? P. Kim Bui provides three approaches for achieving empathy in data visualisations.
Our Handbooks
For Disinformation And Media Manipulation
The latest edition of the Verification Handbook arrives at a critical moment. Today’s information environment is more chaotic and easier to manipulate than ever before. This book equips journalists with the knowledge to investigate social media accounts, bots, private messaging apps, information operations, deep fakes, as well as other forms of disinformation and media manipulation.
The first resource of its kind, it builds on the first edition of the Verification Handbook and the Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting.
The book is published by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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?
The new edition of the Data Journalism Handbook explores new and innovative ways in which data is analysed, created and used in the context of journalism. And beyond that: it also reflects on the social, cultural, political and economic circumstances in which data journalism is embedded.
How journalists can use data to improve the news
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.
A Guide To Online Search And Research Techniques For Using UGC And Open Source Information In Investigations
Based on the conclusions of the first book, this second edition of the Verification Handbook sheds light on the use of open data and open source information to produce critical journalistic investigations.
As new challenges have emerged in the digital sphere, wider opportunities to carry out more comprehensive investigations have arisen as well. The authors of the book take the reader on a walk-through to hone their online investigation tactics, providing them with step-by-step guidance to apply research, fact-checking, and data journalism techniques.
A Definitive Guide To Verifying Digital Content For Emergency Coverage
The first edition of the Verification Handbook has become a definitive reference for professionals worldwide. This book laid the foundations for the process of digital content verification and opened a necessary debate about the steps to follow for ensuring the accuracy of reporting within emergency situations.
Used by educators and journalists of any level, this pioneering book is an essential read for learning about the best-practices for verifying user-generated content and developing appropriate verification processes.
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