To fight climate change, we need to protect sea life. Whales, plankton, and seagrasses have a key impact on the Earth’s carbon cycle. Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from to April 5 to April 11, which tracks the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter each week, found a piece by Reuters Graphics explaining how these species interact underwater as well as capture and transform carbon. In this edition, we also feature an atlas of emotions by Google Arts & Culture, a look at the COVID-19 endgame by the Financial Times, and some great board games to inspire data visualization enthusiasts.
As COVID-19 cases surged throughout the past year, so did data visualizations. Data-minded scientists, journalists, health care providers, and philanthropists discussed how the pandemic and data journalism have shaped each other at a US symposium, and shared new visualization tools.
Around the world, official death tolls from the pandemic have been compromised by data lags, lack of testing, and sometimes deliberate distortions, leading to significant undercounts. In response, investigative reporters are using new tools and creative approaches to provide a clearer picture of direct and indirect deaths associated with the pandemic, and to hold governments accountable for inadequate responses.
The World Bank is supporting governments in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing about $14 billion to more than 100 countries. But how is the money being spent and who is getting the contracts?
Tracking the use of this money can be facilitated by World Bank data online along with national procurement records.
Local reporters have been finding innovative ways to report on the death and devastation caused by India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus – even as the authorities tried to downplay the severity of the crisis. Bhavya Dore speaks to reporters who staked out the banks of the river Ganges and stationed themselves outside morgues and hospitals to investigate what was really happening.
The COVID-19 outbreak has sparked a new wave of Chinese muckraking, despite years of suppression of investigative reporting. GIJN’s Chinese Editor Joey Qi speaks with Chinese journalists on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak about their tips for reporters around the world covering the pandemic.
As countries rapidly spend billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus pandemic, digging into government contracts is taking on a new urgency.
The crisis poses new challenges. Officials are using emergency purchasing procedures, creating barriers to public disclosure, and slowing down their handling of requests under freedom of information laws.
GIJN собирает советы и инструменты со всего мира, которые могут пригодиться журналистам и редакторам в их работе по освещению пандемии COVID-19, а также в сборе информации для новостей и расследований в условиях карантина и отсутствия личного доступа к чиновникам, экспертам и другим потенциальным героям материалов. Видеозаписи вебинаров об освещении пандемии
Смотрите всю подборку на русском здесь.
En estos meses de pandemia, los periodistas del mundo se encuentran en medio del caos sanitario intentado dar sentido a declaraciones técnicas, nuevos hallazgos e incluso afirmaciones contradictorias por parte de distintos actores. Aquí presentamos un antídoto: una guía global para la investigación periodística en temas de salud y medicina.
কোভিড-১৯ মহামারি মোকাবিলার জন্য বিভিন্ন দেশের সরকারকে অর্থ সহায়তা দিয়েছে বিশ্বব্যাংক। এখন পর্যন্ত ১০০টির বেশি দেশে দেওয়া হয়েছে প্রায় ১৪ বিলিয়ন ডলার। কিন্তু এই অর্থ কীভাবে খরচ করা হচ্ছে? কাদের সঙ্গে চুক্তি করা হচ্ছে?
