data journalism
4 Common Angles Data Journalists Use to Tell Stories
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At the Online Journalism Blog, data journalism expert Paul Bradshaw analyzed 100 pieces of data that journalists use and found that there are several common story angles.
10 Questions
From Fact-Checker to Editor-in-Chief: How One Woman Rose to the Top at OCCRP
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OCCRP’s new editor-in-chief Miranda Patrucic built her career investigating crime and corruption in Central Asia and Azerbaijan. Here she shares her tips on avoiding burnout, interviewing on difficult subject matter, and tells GIJN about the power of believing in your ability to uncover the truth.
News & Analysis
What Happens to Journalism When Social Media Sites Lose Their Relevance?
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A panel at the 2023 International Journalism Festival in Perugia explored the implications for journalism of Twitter “dying” and Facebook’s pivot away from news.
data journalism
Testing the Potential of Using ChatGPT to Extract Data from PDFs
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Converting text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets is tedious and expensive work. To see how well AI tool ChatGPT can extract data from PDFs, data journalist Brandon Roberts wrote a Python script to convert two document sets to spreadsheets.
Social Media
Answering 6 Common Questions Journalists Have about Mastodon
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A growing number of journalists and media organizations have established a presence on Mastodon. GIJN’s social media editor Holly Pate answers some common questions about the platform.
Tools & Techniques
Tips for Organizing Audio and Video Files and Making Them Searchable
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There are different tools reporters can use to make video and audio files searchable, they should be an essential part of any investigative journalist’s toolkit.
Disability Guide
Guide to Investigating Disability Issues: Chapter 4 — Language and Interviewing
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Just as with any other social group or marginalized community, people in the disability community have language that is preferred, or culturally accepted — and language that is not. So how do journalists know the right thing to say?
data visualization
Tips for Using Flourish to Visualize Elections Data
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In Flourish’s recent webinar on effective elections and polling visualization, data journalist Mafe Callejón shared essential tips for building an interactive map from election results.
Sustainability
How Can We Build a New Future for Journalism That Belongs to All of Us?
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Because of growing threats to democracy, and a recent series of ever more extreme societal and planetary crises, funders now see more clearly the pivotal, central role that independent public interest media play in keeping our societies and economies open. And what’s even more encouraging is to see this positive talk backed up with concrete measures and actions.
News & Analysis
10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
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Mattia Peretti, manager of JournalismAI at the London School of Economics, discusses the 10 things reporters should know about how artificial intelligence can impact journalism.