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Must-reads of 2012: interactives
A fantastic year for data journalism
By Anna Codrea-Rado Dec 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. 2012 was a fantastic... More
Blogging data
Programmer blogs explain the science behind the magic
By Anna Codrea-Rado Dec 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Getting the whole Story
NYT reporter worked closely with the interactive team
By Anna Codrea-Rado Dec 6, 2012 at 05:00 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Takeaways from Tow’s report
The role of data journalism in the post-industrial world
By Anna Codrea-Rado Dec 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
A database that brings radio to life
This American Life’s archive as an interactive map
By Anna Codrea-Rado Nov 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Decision 2012: Who mapped it best?
From Daily Beast’s red/blue simplicity to WNYC’s intricate oranges, greens, and purples
By Anna Codrea-Rado Nov 15, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
It’s about the info, not the outlet
Google’s mapped information on Sandy topped anything news organizations offered
By Anna Codrea-Rado Nov 2, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
A data dream team
One example of how academic researchers and journalists can work together on data projects
By Anna Codrea-Rado Oct 24, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
More than a photograph
The best data visualizations aren’t always online
By Anna Codrea-Rado Oct 17, 2012 at 05:00 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
The politics of data
Data visualizations can have agendas
By Anna Codrea-Rado Oct 10, 2012 at 07:50 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Elementary data
Even for small news outlets, creating data visualizations can be as easy as learning the ABCs
By Anna Codrea-Rado Oct 3, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Guardian US’s award-winning interactive
The US-based offshoot comes into its own
By Anna Codrea-Rado Sep 27, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
A timeline that isn’t boring
The New York Times reimagines a form to offer new perspective on driving deaths
By Anna Codrea-Rado Sep 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Timelines are generally considered the lowest form of data visualization, because displaying data chronologically doesn't tend to provide much journalist... More
Putting crime on Chicago Tribune’s map
Crime may not pay, but it does display
By Anna Codrea-Rado Sep 12, 2012 at 07:00 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Designing data
Creating informative beauty out of wind and bears
By Anna Codrea-Rado Sep 5, 2012 at 05:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
