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Data Journalism trends in North America and Europe

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Jennifer LaFleur, Center for Public Integrity

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There’s much more than what we’re showing.

We’ll point you to resources to learn more.

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1967

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2020

A quick history of U.S. data journalism

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Denmark, Sweden, Norway

UK

The Netherlands

And many more places

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“Why don’t we invite the world next time?”

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Newsroom landscape and data-driven investigations

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  • More NGO newsrooms - especially at the local level
  • More newsrooms with specific focus
  • More collaborations
  • More impactful student investigations and newsrooms

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Tools that are enabling more sophisticated work

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  • Dealing with big, big data
  • Managing leaked data and documents
  • Text mining
  • Satellite imaging
  • Machine learning

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2021 data journalism

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  • Climate
  • Investigating algorithms and platforms
  • COVID
  • Corruption
  • Inequality
  • Criminal justice

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We compared the mortality figures for 2020 with those of the last 45 years, revealing the excess mortality of more than 68,000 people over the historical average.

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€150 billion have been stolen worldwide. This money is missing from countries’ budgets for environmental protection, education, transport transformation or digitization.

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We’re better at

  • Data sharing and collaborating
  • Hiring people with data skills & recognizing the importance of data
  • Expanding open-source tools
  • Making data-analysis tools more accessible
  • Documenting our work
  • Learning and adopting techniques of scientists and other specialties

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What’s next?

  • Increased use of satellite imaging and visual investigations
  • Expanded use of flight and drone tracking
  • More widespread use of R and Python in newsrooms
  • More focus on mobile first and geolocation of audience
  • The ability to deal with bigger, more complex data
  • Continued application of the tools of scientists
  • Metaverse?

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For more ideas and information

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GIJN Resource Center: gijn.org

IRE/NICAR: ire.org

Data Journalism Handbook: datajournalism.com

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Get these slides at bit.ly/gijn_here21