Over the past year, I’ve been investigating data journalism. In that work, I’ve found no better source for understanding the who, where, what, how and why of what’s happening in this area than the journalists who are using and even building the tools needed to make sense of the exabyte age. Yesterday, I hosted a Google Hangout with several notable practitioners of data journalism. Video of the discussion is embedded below:
Over the course of the discussion, we talked about what data journalism is, how journalists are using it, the importance of storytelling, ethics, the role of open source and “showing your work” and much more.
Participants
Guests on the hangout included:
- Anthony DeBarros, director of content at Gannett Digital [Profile]
- Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian Datablog and Datastore. [Profile]
- Michelle Minkoff, an interactive producer at the Associated Press. [Profile]
- Brian Boyer, director of the NPR news application team [Guest post]
- Dave Stanton, developer, trainer and technology fellow at the Poynter Institute
- Chris L. Keller, a data journalist at Southern California Public Radio
- Tariq Khokar, an open data evangelist at the World Bank
- Mac Slocum, Radar’s online managing editor
Projects
Here are just a few of the sites, services and projects we discussed:
- The PANDA Project, a data library and search engine for newsrooms
- “For Journalism,”, a Kickstarter to raise money to teach data journalism
- How the Guardian Datablog covered Wikileaks
- ProPublica’s use of Narrative Science
- Projects and ideas collected by Chris L. Keller
- The data journalism of John Keefe at WNYC
In addition, you can see more of our data journalism coverage here.