2 weeks 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.
11 months ago
Digital journalism innovations on the pandemic beat
Explanatory reporting, drone journalism and VR help tell the story of the COVID-19 era
11 months 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.
1 year 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
Digging for Data, Tom Cardoso, crime and justice reporter, Globe and Mail
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Description
All too often, data used in criminal justice research and reporting comes from one of a handful of sources: Statistics Canada, open data portals, or a polite request to a government body. Unfortunately, these datasets are always summarized and…
Data Driven 2019
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This one-day symposium features some of Canada’s most prolific investigative reporters, news developers and data advocates providing an in-depth look into the strategies they use to turn raw data into tomorrow’s headlines.
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