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    The nature of grants that fund nonprofit news organizations

    In all, more foundations surveyed said they are funding nonprofit journalism — both to nonprofit media and in collaborations with commercial media — than they [...]

    April 20, 2016
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    Most funders think donations to news organizations meet their objectives

    In the end, do funders think their underwriting of media is accomplishing what they want? More than half of foundations said they consider their media [...]

    April 20, 2016
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    Diving into Data Journalism: Strategies for getting started or going deeper

    A few years ago, the digital revolution sparked upheaval — and in many newsrooms, concern. As technology brought data journalism and other new practices into [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    How data journalism is different from what we’ve always done

    The definition of data journalism is at once both painfully simple and frustratingly vague. “When you say data journalism, it means something different to just [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    How to get started with data journalism in your newsroom

    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 [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    How to establish data reporting newsroom-wide and make it sustainable

    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 [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    The challenges and possible pitfalls of data journalism, and how you can you avoid them

    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 [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    Resources for learning and doing data journalism

    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 [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    The rise of data reporting

    “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 [...]

    March 9, 2016
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    Emailing teenagers the news: 8 good questions with Clover’s Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis

    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 [...]

    March 1, 2016
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