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Spurring Cross-Border Collaboration on Journalism Investigations in Latin America

by Margaret Looney • March 12, 2014

More and more, Latin American journalism is thriving in the digital space. Investigative journalism platforms online are joining forces, data journalism bootcamps are taking off and there are new accelerators looking to fund innovative news projects. “In today’s world, journalists spend more time in the virtual world than in the paper stacks,” said Carlos Eduardo Huertas, director of Connectas, a nonprofit which supports transnational journalism.

Data Journalism Methodology

Using Twitter to Find People at the Scene of a Breaking Story

by Paul Myers • March 10, 2014

As news stories break, journalists find themselves wanting to speak to members of the public. They could have witnessed an incident or may have been affected by an event. Their views count and they enhance our reports with a human angle. There are many ways to locate ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, but we don’t always know how our approaches will be received, or indeed if our messages to them will be read at all. This is where Twitter comes into its own.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • March 6, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for February 27-March 5), including items from #NICAR14, #HybLab, Data Driven Journalism, and TechCrunch, among others.

Covering the Extractives Industry: Big Data, New Tools, and Journalism

by Anya Schiffrin and Erika Rodrigues • March 5, 2014

The extractives sector (oil, gas, and mining) continues to be an important subject for journalists, particularly in developing countries. Revenues from oil, gas and mining contribute substantially to GDP and in many cases make up the bulk of government revenue. Indeed, among 29 nations that in 2011 were implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), 10 reported extractives revenues totaling over one-quarter of their respective government budgets (six of which were actually over 50%).

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • February 28, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for February 20-26), including items from Morgenpost, Journalism.co.uk, Untapped Cities, and Zeit Online, among others.

Data Journalism

11 Ways to Rethink Open Data and Make it Relevant

by Miguel Paz • February 24, 2014

It’s time to transform open data from a trendy concept among policy wonks and news nerds into something tangible to everyday life for citizens, businesses and grassroots organizations. Here are some ideas to help us get there.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • February 19, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for February 13-19), including items from The Tow Center, The Financial Times, and IJNet, among others. Also, it’s funny to note the influence of Valentine’s Day on the list.

Case Studies

Reporting that Makes an Impact? Some Answers from Pakistan

by Sheila Coronel • February 17, 2014

On February 15, Pakistan became one of only four countries in the world that make tax records public. The other three are Norway, Finland and Sweden. A year ago, no one would have thought this was possible. Pakistan, after all, is a cesspool of corruption and a paragon of opacity. But check the website of the Federal Bureau of Revenue and you’ll find prominently displayed there a link to the Parliamentarians’ Tax Directory. Click on the link and you’ll get a PDF that lists how much income tax each and every member of Parliament paid in 2013. On March 31, a similar listing will be made publicly available for the tax payments of all citizens. How in the world could this happen in Pakistan?

Resource

Investigative Apps: Useful Tools, if Rough on the Edges

There are a lot of websites out there that can help you find hidden information. But there are also software applications and browser plug-ins that can be of use to investigative journalists. Created by up-and-coming developers and enthusiasts on a budget, many of these programmes are rather unsophisticated, so don’t expect slick interfaces and 24-hour help desks. That said, if you can get past the jargon and rough-and-ready feel, you’ll find nifty little apps that can help you discover nuggets of information which would be unavailable through conventional means.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • February 13, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for February 6-12). This week our links include items from Morgenpost, Más Investigación, and Twitter blog, among others. Thanks to Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.

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