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Chinese Media Investigate Deadly Explosion in Tianjin

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In spite of official efforts to control news coverage of last week’s deadly explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, Chinese media have responded swiftly not only to cover the fast-moving disaster, but also to probe the why and how of the tragedy. Within hours of the blast, leading Chinese media, both traditional and online, began investigating reasons for the toxic facilities to be built next to residential developments, the ownership of the storage, the failure of government oversight, and the botched response to the disaster.

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Web Scraping: A Journalist’s Guide

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$8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer program that reads the HTML code from webpages, and analyze it. With such a program, or “bot,” it’s possible to extract data and information from websites.

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Election of GIJN Board — 2015

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This October, the membership of the Global Investigative Journalism Network will vote to elect members of the GIJN Board of Directors. The board consists of 15 members. Of these, seven seats are now up for election — all for a period of two years. To be eligible to run, candidates must belong to a GIJN member organization and their candidacy must have the support of that organization.

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After Norway: Help Us Choose the Next Global Conference

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The local host of the 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, to be held in 2017, will be chosen by GIJN member representatives during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway. GIJN is pleased to present GIJC17 proposals for three cities: Amman, Jordan, from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism; Johannesburg, South Africa, from the Investigative Journalism Workshop, Wits University; and Vancouver, Canada, from the Global Reporting Centre.

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Tools for Measuring Your Group’s Audience and Impact

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As news publishers, it’s tempting to think of our analytics like the weather: they just happen to us. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By tracking our readers’ behavior and understanding what makes them act a certain way or click on a certain page, we can better understand how to recreate or manipulate their behavior the next time around. The following is a comprehensive list of tools to give you incredible insight into your readership.

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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

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What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 23 to 30: mapping money and doctors in Germany (@ZEITONLINE); maps at the Berliner Morgenpost (@moklick); #ddj for francophone African journalists (@Afronline); carsharing in Berlin (@tagesspiegel); and more.

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Sustainability: Tips on Holding Live Events That Support Journalism

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Just as an article or a gallery of photos can shine a light on an issue for the public, so can these in-person gatherings. Some media organizations are putting on full-fledged festivals in the same vein as South by Southwest and TED. These gatherings include panels of experts, one-on-one conversations with major newsmakers and presentations that explore ground-breaking topics. In other words, they’re an entirely new way of informing and providing information — undoubtedly journalistic functions.

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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

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What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 16 to 23: 2490 D3 Visualizations (@d3visualization); corrupt techniques on evidence presentation (@edwardtufte); examples of fiscal data visualization (@OKFN); Australia’s mining footprint (@ICIJorg); and more.

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The Research Desk: The Latest Databases and Int’l Reports

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It’s time for another roundup of resources and research reports that we’ve curated from around the web. Most of these selections are new on the web in the past few weeks. Several of the reports listed below are full of data including visualizations and can be thought of as reference tools for both current and future research.

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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

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What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 9 to 16: +300 sites with free geographic datasets (@sciremotesense ); graphing German YouTube (@SPIEGELOLINE); Australia’s mining footprint (@ICIJorg); democratizing data (OKFN); and more.