How might we best tell data-driven stories on social media? Deutsche Welle and EDJNet want to experiment with different approaches. A guest post by Kira Schacht and Gianna-Carina Grün. — The post was originally published on DW Innovation blog. When we as a data team finally publish a long-term data-driven investigation, we are super happy we made it across the finish line, but exhausted at the same time.

Lindsay Green-Barber (Impact Architects) — A few weeks ago, we asked Lindsay Green-Barber to animate a webinar for EDJNet’s members and partners. She helped us think about the impact of our work and possible ways to increase it — both for EDJNet itself and for European data journalism more in general. …

Giorgio Comai — OBC Transeuropa — Almost one million Romanian citizens cast their ballot for the second turn of the Romanian presidential elections in November 2019 from abroad, largely thanks to the fact that more than 800 polling stations around the world remained opened from Friday through Sunday over the election week-end. …

It has been two years since the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) started making collaborative data journalism in Europe. It is high time to take stock of what has been achieved and what can be improved. After a few consultations with our 28 media partners, we launched a survey which…

di Giorgio Comai e Gina Pavone (OBC Transeuropa) Nel pomeriggio del 27 maggio, il giorno successivo alle elezioni europee in Italia, i risultati degli scrutini sono praticamente definitivi. La comunità dei data journalist freme in attesa dei file con i dati. Sul gruppo facebook Daninja qualcuno domanda come ottenere i…

by Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa) Among the many debates that follow elections, there is one that usually gets most attention among data journalists and people with an interest in data visualisation: electoral maps. …

Disinformation campaigns, dubious practices on social media, murkey financing of political campaigns and lobby groups, timed hacked and leaks: new structural vulnerabilities to our democracies are there for anyone to exploit. It’s time to focus our public conversation on new policies and practices that can mitigate these risks 15/02/2019 — Giorgio Comai Recent electoral contests in established Western democracies have been followed by media reports, research efforts, and inquiries suggesting that Russian political actors may have interfered with the integrity of democratic processes through various means (including through non-transparent funding of political forces, disinformation campaigns, computational propaganda, as…

by Giorgio Comai (OBC Transeuropa) — A few weeks ago, the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) released a new dataset including yearly average temperatures between the year 1900 and 2017 for over 500 cities across Europe, and made it possible to find key data on each of them through an interactive web interface. Since these are…

The European Data Journalism Network published an analysis of temperature trends in 558 cities and their surroundings in Europe on Monday, 24 September 2018, starting at 08:00 CEST, in partnership with several news outlets. A few hours after publication, several commenters pointed out that the temperature data for some cities…