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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
‘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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
