Once you’ve decided data is something your staff should be able to handle, the question is how to incorporate it into their workflow. Every newsroom [...]
Learning spreadsheet basics is one thing, but establishing data as a steady practice is another. Those who teach data journalism agree there are some steps [...]
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 [...]
Many of the people performing product management roles in news organizations have moved over from traditional editorial roles. That shift requires some changes in mindset [...]
Whether your news organization is looking to create its first product management role, or add to an existing product team, finding and recruiting the right [...]
Eric Ulken, executive director of digital strategy at the Philadelphia Media Network, says they see product managers as the “voice of the user.” Everyone inside [...]
Everyone in your organization plays some key role in making your products great. The product manager is there to guide, facilitate, and advocate — but [...]
Particularly for “legacy” news organizations, like newspapers, that have evolved and calcified an organizational structure from an earlier era, it can be challenging to find [...]


