In all, more foundations surveyed said they are funding nonprofit journalism — both to nonprofit media and in collaborations with commercial media — than they [...]
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 [...]
A few years ago, the digital revolution sparked upheaval — and in many newsrooms, concern. As technology brought data journalism and other new practices into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]


