What’s hot among the data-driven journalism (#ddj) twitterati? A bus tour of Berlin, 30 years of reporting on HIV/AIDS in Kenya, 100 ways to visualize a text, and when correlation does not equal causation. Time for this week’s Top Ten #ddj!
What’s the data-driven journalism (#ddj) crowd all in a Twitter about? Here are the new year’s Top Data Journalism Links for January 1-8. Included in this week’s items are visuals from Le Temps, FiveThirtyEight, and OpenDataCity.
What has the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd been tweeting about all year long?? What are the most popular hashtags? The most searched domains? The top mentions? We look back on…a year of “things” (BBC), guesting with strangers in à la Airbnb (Le Temps), all of history in “one click” (Herodote.net), the genius of Edward Tufte, and so very much more!
What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for Dec. 10-18). Among the items: Zeit Online’s Year in Infographics, new prints by Edward Tufte, and the NYT’s @harrisj on “the wave of bullshit data” coming your way.
In just over two weeks we’ll convene Uncovering Asia, the region’s first investigative journalism conference. We’ve got an extraordinary array of the best journalists from Japan to Pakistan heading to Manila for what will be a World’s Fair of muckraking from Nov. 22-24. So why is GIJN heading to Asia? That’s easy. It’s where 60% of humanity lives, and the demand for watchdog reporting is enormous. The region has long been the weak link in our global community of investigative journalists — but that’s changing quickly.
What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? A politician and his shadow (data, that is), New York City taxis, DataFest, and more! Here are the week’s Top Ten Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for October 24-30), with items from Der Spiegel, the Guardian, and the Financial Times.
GIJN member Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) will host its seventh annual forum for Arab investigative journalists in Amman in December. The conference, whose theme is “Arab Media: The Battle for Independence,” will feature 30 + panels and trainings with speakers like Sy Hersh, Marwan Muashar, Tim Sebastian, and more.
What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Moving maps, corruption in banks, life on earth (again), and more! Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for October 16-24), including items from Mapacino, NiemanLab, and Simon Rogers.
At long last we can retire Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as the icons of investigative reporting. With his second book probing the dark tunnels of the so-called war on terror, James Risen has established himself as the finest national security reporter of this generation… Although parts of Risen’s new revelations have been published in the Times or elsewhere, here they are fleshed out in richly reported chapters studded with eye-popping new charges.
