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Data Journalism
Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Jan. 5- 11: Awesome public datasets (@github); 20 ways to find data (@journalismnews); 19th Century big data (@ddjournalism); tilemaps & dataviz in Switzerland (@rastrau); Carnival in Germany (@Schwaebische); and more.
Data Journalism Methodology
Inside a Pioneering Italian Data Journalism Collaboration
Confiscati Bene, released in mid-December in Europe, is a pioneering data journalism collaboration that digs into the $4 billion of goods in the EU confiscated from criminals by European authorities. An international team of journalists and their allies sought to create a European database of seized assets and answer troubling questions about the accountability of the process. Confiscati Bene (literally, Well Confiscated) received support from GIJN member JournalismFund.eu; the main project can be seen at http://eu.confiscatibene.it.
News & Analysis
Despite Challenges, S. African Muckraking Pushes Forward
A boom in investigative journalism in South Africa seems to be winding down as media houses slash budgets to balance their books to continue to pay dividends to shareholders. “South Africa has had something of a golden era in investigative reporting, with as many as four teams at different institutions dedicated to it,” said Professor Anton Harber, head of the journalism department at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Data Journalism
Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for Dec. 23- Jan.4: NYT’s best graphics & visual stories (@NYT); programmers’ StackOverflow questions (@jbkunst); AI & disaster reporting (@ddjournalism); New Year’s tweets (@tomaspetricek); 2015 top #ddj tweets (@gijn).
Data Journalism
Top Ten #ddj for 2015: The Year’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
Thanks to so many of you for following our weekly Top Ten #ddj, which uses NodeXL to do a social network analysis on data journalism tweets. Here’s our summary of the year’s best: the most popular hashtags, the most searched domains, and the top mentions. As we have through the year, GIJN sends big thanks to the great Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.
News & Analysis
An Investigative Journalist Leaps From Print to Digital
News & Analysis
Investigative Reporting in 2015: GIJN’s Top 12 Stories
As 2015 nears an end, we’d like to share our top 12 stories of the year — the stories that you, our dear readers, found most compelling. The list ranges from free data tools and crowdfunding to the secrets of the Wayback Machine. Please join us in taking a look at The Best of GIJN.org this year.
Data Journalism
Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for Dec. 8-13: New book on ddj in newsrooms (@NiemanLab); a guide to bad data (@qz); persons of interest database (@pudo); US mass shootings (@washpost); terrorist attacks since 1970 (@datenblog); ddj en Ecuador; & more.
News & Analysis
Propaganda & Media Freedom
We’re pleased to run this excerpt from the recent report, Propaganda and Freedom of the Media, produced by the Office of The Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). “These are trying times,” said the Representative, Dunja Mijatović, at the November 26 roll out of the report, during which she branded propaganda “an ugly scar on the face of modern journalism” and called on governments “to get out of the news business.”