Time consuming, crazy-making and a vital tool for investigative reporting: Anna Mehler Paperny, senior producer of globalnews.ca's investigative data desk, explains the ins and outs of data-driven journalism and why more journalists should be crunching numbers.
With an increasing number governments at all levels putting data online, journalists who lack the tools to harness this information and make enough sense of it to tell stories will be left playing catch up to those who possess the necessary skills. As J-Source's ideas editor David McKie writes, journalism schools are now hopping on…
Vancouver Sun investigative reporter and Kwantlen Polytechnic j-school instructor Chad Skelton explains how he crowdsourced the syllabus and handouts for his new data journalism course.
Two Canadian news outlets – The Globe and Mail and Global News — have been nominated for the Data Journalism Awards, the only international prize for data-driven journalism. 72 finalists were shortlisted and the winners of the DJA 2013 will be announced in Paris at the Global Editors Network summit on June 19 to 21. Here…
By David McKie There has been a lot of distressing talk about the slow but sure death of journalism as we know it. With each passing week, there is news of yet another newspaper scaling back traditional content delivery and migrating much of that content to the Internet. In this space earlier this month, I…
That’s not to say that other newsrooms don’t have investigative teams that employ data analysts or do regular data-led investigations, but he hasn’t heard of any other newsroom that had a dedicated team of data journalists working full-time on such investigations.
Global News data desk journalist Patrick Cain outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools: Google Fusion tables, NodeXL, Scapetoad, JQuery Data Tables, and Tableau Public.
When the CBC's Fifth Estate came calling for information on Canada's hospitals, the provinces responded with a collective "no." Data journalism editor Fred Vallance-Jones says it happens all too often.
The Data Journalism Handbook is available online for free, and includes insight into how top news organizations use data to enhance their reporting.
In the second of our continuing series of video tutorials on using data journalism tools, Fred Vallance-Jones shows you how to calculate percentages in a Google Docs spreadsheet.