Data Points
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
Finding the local in vast swathes of data
An NPR map of 2010 census information is a great example of how reporters can make big data locally relevant
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 29, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Census data was made for mapping, showing the relationship between data points over a geographical area. In 2010, when the... More
Covering the databases
Why journalists should be leading by example in the open data debate
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 22, 2012 at 04:45 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Show, don’t tell
Sometimes the way data is visualized is as important as the data itself
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 15, 2012 at 04:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Between the Spreadsheets
CJR and the Tow Center’s new column on data visualization takes on the Olympics
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 8, 2012 at 04:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
