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Now that we’ve gained some basic data knowledge and are putting it to use, we need to take care not to get entangled in a [...]

Tutorials Using Excel to do Precision Journalism by Steve Doig: Here you can learn the “basic spreadsheet knowledge” we talked about – sorting, filtering and basic [...]

“Data and journalism have become deeply intertwined, with increased prominence,” journalist Alex Howard wrote in in a report for the Tow Center at Columbia University [...]

Email newsletters are in the midst of a renaissance, and new email newsletter Clover is taking advantage of the medium to reach teenage girls. Started [...]

Among the 98 U.S. newspapers with circulations over 50,000, the American Press Institute found that 77 of them use a digital subscription model (79%).1Data was [...]

In the 1990s and 2000s, most newspapers were hesitant to charge for content. Publishers feared that if they were the only newspaper charging for content, [...]

Digital subscriptions reached a high point in 2015. In August, the New York Times reported that it had passed the 1 million paid digital subscribers [...]

Today, news organizations are striving to convince advertisers that their first-party data (information collected from users on their website) is more valuable than third-party data [...]

In 2009, with advertising revenue steeply declining, news organizations began debating the feasibility of requiring digital subscriptions. Publications like The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Atlantic published [...]

Newspaper publishers in the United States have moved rapidly in recent years to create subscriptions for digital access to their news, and according to an [...]