Story template automatically populated with data for various communities to be shared through Canadian Press wire Continue Reading New campus-industry startup will generate local stories, build students’ data journalism skills
The pandemic has shown the value of a data-literate news media Continue Reading How journalists informed audiences in a data-filled era
Advances in tech are helping small newsrooms take on big investigations Continue Reading How AI is helping newsrooms identify biases, automate multi-platform visual media and accelerate data journalism
Explanatory reporting, drone journalism and VR help tell the story of the COVID-19 era Continue Reading Digital journalism innovations on the pandemic beat
Professors tend to believe their students don’t want to do math. As a result, more frequently used tools like social media are emphasized, leaving new reporters behind on complex analysis tasks valued (if underutilized) by newsrooms Continue Reading J-schools lag behind in teaching prized data journalism skills
National collaboration of news organizations and journalism schools undertakes “wartime effort” to map novel coronavirus data in the public interest Continue Reading Data collective ‘Project Pandemic’ launches to help local newsrooms explore COVID-19’s impact across Canada
$10,000 will be awarded to a freelance journalist or team to undertake data journalism project on Indigenous land rights Continue Reading Humber’s storyLAB and Pulitzer Center partner on data journalism grant
How data journalism and coding are changing the landscape of investigative journalism Continue Reading Data storytelling in a diversifying field
Statistics Canada data shows that between 2001 and 2016 the total number of journalists in the country declined by only 7 percent – and it looks like hiring is starting to inch upwards again. Continue Reading There are fewer journalists in Canada than 15 years ago — but not as few as you might think