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In this week’s look at the Top 10 in Data Journalism, GIJN highlights mapping wage theft in New York, the alarming rise in US airliner near misses, Russia’s brain drain, and a historical analysis of the Great Kantō earthquake in Japan 100 years ago.
This week, GIJN’s Top 10 in Data Journalism examines why the world’s tallest mountain has become increasingly deadly for those trying to climb it, pollution in Paris metro stations, US laws expanding gun access one year after the Uvalde mass shooting, and migrant worker struggles in Singapore.
The introductory chapter and table of contents to GIJN’s new reporting guide to investigating disability issues, which provides a brief primer on the purpose and scope of this guide.
In this reporting guide we’ve included some of the various definitions of disability, important resources, and key issues for journalists to investigate.
As in all stories, choosing who your sources are makes a difference. A lot of journalists fail to actually quote a person living with the disabilities they’re writing about, and there are also many disabled and neurodivergent people who are experts in the fields that you might need for your story.
The first chapter in GIJN’s reporting guide to investigating disability issues focuses on understanding the nature and terminology of disabilities as well as the different models of understanding the challenges facing the community.