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Between the Spreadsheets
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
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
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
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
CAR hits the mainstream
Computer-assisted reporting is being recognized as an important journalistic discipline
By Susan McGregor Mar 18, 2013 at 02:55 PM
It's been more than a year since The New York Times declared this The Age of Big Data, but for... More
Connecting China, visually
Reporters help tell Chinese political stories in an interactive way
By Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang Apr 15, 2013 at 02:00 PM
On February 28, while China's leadership transition was underway, Connected China, a visualization application produced by Reuters, went online. Using... 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
Crediting the source code
While most of us recognize that text and images are protected by copyright laws, code copyright is less understood
By Michael J. Bellantoni and Shiwani Neupane Mar 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Open Google Chrome and go to your favorite website. Right click, scroll down, and select "Inspect Element." The lower-third of... More
Crowdsourcing done right
Crowdsourced journalism showed its limits during the Boston bombing, but that doesn’t mean it lacks value
By Katie Akagi and Stephanie Linning Apr 29, 2013 at 03:55 PM
Crowdsourcing -- obtaining data, information, or ideas from a group of people -- can quickly bring up vast quantities of... 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
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
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
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
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
Less is more with mobile visualizations
As readers shift to tablets and smartphones, interactive newsrooms need to re-focus on the basics
By Barrett Sheridan May 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
To walk through San Francisco is to examine the area's lurid, sometimes brutal mid-nineteenth-century origins. Each street has a story.... 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
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
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
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
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
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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
