7 months ago
New campus-industry startup will generate local stories, build students’ data journalism skills
Story template automatically populated with data for various communities to be shared through Canadian Press wire
7 months ago
How journalists informed audiences in a data-filled era
The pandemic has shown the value of a data-literate news media
12 months ago
How AI is helping newsrooms identify biases, automate multi-platform visual media and accelerate data journalism
Advances in tech are helping small newsrooms take on big investigations
Data Driven 2021
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Join us for a special virtual edition of Data Driven, Canada’s premier data journalism event. Learn how to turn terabytes of raw data into exclusive scoops that shape politics, social justice, and day-to-day lives of Canadians.
FOI Friday with Tom Cardoso
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Join the Canadian Association of Journalists' Ottawa chapter to learn how to improve your use of the federal Access to Information Act.
2 years ago
Digital journalism innovations on the pandemic beat
Explanatory reporting, drone journalism and VR help tell the story of the COVID-19 era
2 years ago
J-schools lag behind in teaching prized data journalism skills
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
DJDC #30 tools to take your data journalism game to the next level
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Using several recent articles as examples, Sam will demonstrate how small changes in data analysis and presentation can dramatically increase a story's ability to educate and inspire readers.
Equity & ethics in data journalism: Hands-on approaches to getting your data right
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This course will guide you hands-on through the process of learning to identify inequity and hidden bias at seven key stages of the data journalism lifecycle.
2 years ago
Data collective ‘Project Pandemic’ launches to help local newsrooms explore COVID-19’s impact across Canada
National collaboration of news organizations and journalism schools undertakes “wartime effort” to map novel coronavirus data in the public interest
J-Source , led by the journalism programs at Ryerson University (which is currently engaged in a renaming process) and Carleton University, is supported by the post-secondary journalism programs at member institutions of J-Schools Canada/Écoles-J Canada, the R. Howard Webster Foundation and a group of donors.
French-language publication Projet J, hosted by J-Source, is led by the journalism program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and funded by a group of donors.
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