“Stories can be told in many different ways,” said Cheryl Phillips. “A sidebar that may once have been a 12-inch text piece is now a timeline, or a map.”

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May 2, 2014

Tasneem Raja urges newsrooms to adopt pair programming for better data journalism

New, digitally native media enterprises like Five Thirty Eight have gotten a lot of attention — and some grief — as they’ve gone online this year. It’s media organizations and journalists at…

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Apr 28, 2014

Data skills make you a better journalist, says ProPublica’s Sisi Wei

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Mar 31, 2014

Profile of the Data Journalist: Serdar Tumgoren

As in 2012, when I published a series of profiles of data journalists at Radar, I’ve conducted a series of email interviews after the annual conference of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR). They’re part of my research…

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Mar 27, 2014

Aron Pilhofer on data journalism, culture and going digital

When it comes to computer-assisted reporting and the ways media companies are using technology, there are few people in the U.S.A. as knowledgeable as Aron Pilhofer. He runs a newsroom team at The New York Times that combines…

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Mar 26, 2014

Debugging the backlash to data journalism

While the craft and context that underlies “data journalism” is well-known to anyone…

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Mar 11, 2014

2014 NICAR conference highlights data journalism’s past, present and future

When I first attended the annual conference of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) in 2012, it was as a speaker. I was there to give a short talk about new data coming from…