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Whether you have no idea what data visualization is, how it can be used a storytelling medium, or already love it and want to learn more, check out this video produced during the 2009/10 Knight Journalism Fellowship. And if you've already seen it, it's worth a refresher. The video is broken down into eight chapters:…

The Economist has nearly 1.2 million Twitter followers, and more than 800,000 Facebook fans. How do you build a community like that?

So does the Post. Advertising manager Enzo Loschiavo told OpenFile "I'll be honest, no one saw it."

Although it can seem like it, not everybody is against the idea of creating a professional title for journalists.

The Globe and Mail has published an in-depth article on Postmedia's efforts to go digital dubbed "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch."

Guardian columnist George Monbiot thinks so — and not just your salary, he writes, but every source of income. Book deals; how much is in your savings accounts; whether you charge rent to tenants — all of it.

Not everybody thought The Onion's Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny.

Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage — and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, here. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant? [node:ad]

We talk to Canadian Association of Journalists past president Paul Schneidereit about the association's response to the professionalization issue in Quebec, its vote against creating the title, and why the issue's not dead yet.