The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid visual storytelling through charts and graphics.
After five years and 2,875 project entries from more than 100 countries, the Sigma Awards have become a catalyst for innovation and forever changed the face of data journalism.
Ten outstanding data-driven journalism projects, from as many countries, were chosen by a diverse Prize Committee of 17 judges from 498 entries from 80 countries.
GIJN, the new home of the Sigma Awards, is proud to announce the 2025 shortlist for the best data journalism projects and portfolios in the past year.
The US government’s detained immigrant population flatlined in April, but there’s more to the numbers than meets the eye. Here’s what journalists need to know about the data.
The wide range of international environmental data that the OECD offers, though often Eurocentric, is still extensive in scope and comparatively reliable.
At a NICAR 2025 panel, data journalism experts discussed nuanced number errors that watchdog reporters often make that can confuse readers and disrupt story angles.
Data journalism in the Middle East has been driven by organizations that have produced collaborations and projects that combine innovative techniques with nuanced local knowledge.
What does climate change feel like? How will your city’s climate shift, 50 years from now? Data scientist Derek Taylor explains his latest piece.
Exiled Russian media site IStories has shared with GIJN how it built an AI-powered database of Russian military war dead and missing, and why it was worth creating.
Two scientists and an editor spent six months investigating so-called paper mills, which churn out bogus scientific papers that impede actual research on lifesaving breakthroughs.
GIJN shares some of the no-cost, easy-to-use data tools that NICAR25 conference panelists described as surprisingly useful but unknown by investigative reporters.
For International Women’s Day we spoke to data journalists from Argentina, Kenya, Sweden, and Turkey to find out why they chose this path and what challenges still remain.
We used WhatsApp to crowdsource information from Uber and Lyft drivers in NYC about company lockouts during a local, minimum wage dispute.
CLIP developed a collaborative database that empowers journalists to access public documents, contracts, and datasets across Latin America.
This investigation sought to answer key questions that no government could answer: What happens when someone goes missing at Europe’s borders? And how many burial sites are there across Europe?
Filipino journalist Jaemark Tordecilla explains how he made and refined a custom AI tool that makes it easier to report on public spending from budgets published online.
As the use of the internet spread and increasing amounts of data emerged, the term “data journalism” arose to describe reporting powered by data and analysis.
Data journalism in Africa has made a powerful impact, from holding leaders accountable to refuting myths around domestic violence. But the field faces formidable challenges.
A recent investigation by Grist, a nonprofit independent media outlet, dug into federal datasets to uncover the extent of state trust lands on Indigenous reservations across the US.
NASA’s Worldview database is a valuable tool that journalists can use to find data and free graphics on a range of topics, like wildfires, floods, deforestation, and many more.
The data visualization expert and former academic stresses the importance of having an ‘interdisciplinary mindset’ when approaching data-driven stories.
GIJN Turkish Editor and data journalism instructor Pinar Dag is back with another quiz to test your knowledge of data visualization.
For the SEJ’s Reporter’s Toolbox: datasets and sources useful for tracking the harmful impact of climate change-fueled algal blooms.
Data journalism is helping outlets across the region carry out innovative projects that reveal the stories hidden in large volumes of data.
Belarusian journalist Alina Yanchur shared the investigative methods adopted by those who have to work without access to state-published information.
Small newsrooms need to focus on the importance of data use more than ever — but they often face numerous hurdles, including a lack of funding and limited human resources.
