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Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Partisan School Books, Holy Walks to Nando’s, Brazil’s Bolsonaro, How to Become UK Prime Minister

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • January 16, 2020

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from January 6 to 12 finds the New York Times exposing partisan editing in school textbooks, a new data science platform from Turkey, Delayed Gratification’s infographic on how to become the British prime minister, Alberto Cairo making his graphics available for free, and an analysis of fact-checks of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

News & Analysis

What Investigative Journalism Will Look Like in 2020

by Eunice Au • January 15, 2020

GIJN asked investigative journalists around the world to look ahead at what’s in store for 2020. Here are the trends, key forces, and challenges they expect will affect investigative and data journalism in the coming year, as well as the new skills and approaches we should be thinking about.

Case Studies

‘Reality Journalism’ Turns Investigative Reports into Pop Idol-Style Shows

by Rowan Philp • January 13, 2020

Around the world, millions of people seem to be tuning serious journalism out, as the fallout from misinformation, fatigue, and rival information sources overwhelm audience attention. But in three developing countries, large new audiences are now tuning in – to watch investigative reporting teams compete in Pop Idol-style reality shows.

News & Analysis

In Benin, Journalist Sentenced to 18 Months for Publishing 3 Tweets

by GIJN Staff • January 10, 2020

Investigative journalist Ignace Sossou was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined  $338 for “harassment ” by a court in Benin. His crime? Sossou posted three tweets quoting the country’s public prosecutor, who had been speaking candidly about digital regulations.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Australia’s Deadly Wildfires, Sigma Awards, Best of Data Viz 2019

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • January 9, 2020

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from December 30, 2019 to January 5, 2020 finds The New York Times examining Australia’s brutal fire season, the launch of The Sigma Awards to honor outstanding data journalism, Der Tagesspiegel analyzing the major changes across the globe in the past decade, and inspiring best-of data visualization lists by Nathan Yau, Pew Research Center, ZEIT ONLINE, the Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times.

Support Global Muckraking

by GIJN Staff • December 30, 2019

As democracy and human rights retreat from a growing worldwide assault, increasingly the public looks to independent, watchdog reporters to hold the line on truth and accountability. And those reporters, in turn, depend on GIJN for the latest tools, technology, and training. But we can’t do it without your help…

Case Studies

Engaging Journalism Audiences Through Satire   

by Amina Boubia • December 23, 2019

Satire can make journalism more entertaining and accessible for new audiences. But how can you turn your headline into a punchline? To find out, Amina Boubia from the Open Society Foundations’ Program on Independent Journalism spoke to two veterans of political satire: Isam Uraiqat and Juan Ravell.

Reporting Tools & Tips

Most Popular Resources on GIJN in 2019

by GIJN Staff • December 20, 2019

GIJN’s ever-growing Resource Center added many new or substantially revamped guides this year, including packages on climate change, land ownership, women journalists, data journalism, tracking planes, and working with whistleblowers.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10 for 2019: People Are The Story, Pirates vs. Princesses, Open Source Journalism, How Charts Lie, UN Votes

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • December 19, 2019

Throughout this year, we’ve brought you weekly “snapshots” of the Twitter conversation surrounding data journalism. But this week, we look at what the global data journalism community tweeted about the most during all of 2019. Below you’ll find links to stories from Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, the US, and elsewhere.

Most Popular Reads on GIJN in 2019

by GIJN Staff • December 13, 2019

It’s been another exciting year at GIJN with some great original stories — including tips, tools, techniques, and case studies galore, as well as our regular series How They Did It, My Favorite Tools, and Focus (GIJN’s member profiles) — alongside some of our favorite reads from around the web.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Air Pollution, China Cables, #29Leaks, Predators on Dating Apps

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • December 12, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from December 2 to 8 finds The New York Times visualizing particle pollution in augmented reality; various media outlets investigating #29Leaks, a global reporting project based on a massive data leak from an offshore services provider; Columbia Journalism Investigations and ProPublica digging into the problem of sexual predators lurking in dating apps; and The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists breaking down the significance of the China Cables.

News & Analysis

A Global Tour of 2019’s Top Investigative Podcasts

by Gaelle Faure • December 10, 2019

Compiling a list of the best investigative podcasts of 2019 may well be an impossible task. In the five years since Serial became a break-out hit, an avalanche of investigative podcasts has followed — and no, not all of them about true crime — with more coming out every year. With that in mind, here are just some of the most interesting investigative podcasts that aired in 2019.

Case Studies

What PolitiFact Learned about Making Money and Earning Trust

by Joy Mayer • December 6, 2019

When journalists practice transparency around their processes, their goals, and their values, news consumers tend to respond positively — and sometimes, they even spend more money on journalism. That was the case with an experiment that Trusting News ran with PolitiFact.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Oceans, Bar Chart Races, EU Polling

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • December 5, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 25 to December 1 finds The New York Times profiling Bellingcat and its use of OSINT techniques; the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Stanford University collaborating to employ artificial intelligence to solve a journalistic problem; and the Science Communication Lab creating a beautiful interactive scientific poster to explore the world’s oceans.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Thanksgiving Travel, Visualization Art, Bad Charts, Dataharvest

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • November 28, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 18 to 24 finds Google Trends mapping the busiest places and times for Thanksgiving, Al Jazeera profiling the work of data journalist Mona Chalabi and her hand-drawn visualizations, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism examining the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in journalism, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop collating useful public datasets in one place.

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