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This 2023 edition of the guide was compiled and written by Ryan McNeill, deputy data journalism editor, Reuters; Deborah Nelson, professor of investigative journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland; and Toby McIntosh, independent journalist and former director of the GIJN Resource Center. Satellites are a powerful investigative tool.
GIJN’s weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a look the impact of changes to organ donation rules in the US, drug usage in Europe based on wastewater analysis, a text analysis of layoff memos written by tech industry chief executives, and an examination of protests across Russia in 2022.
Could news media use drones to better inform the public? To procure new data or do remote fact-checking with small unmanned aircraft? Could drones protect journalists, who have been targets for violence? Enthusiasm waxed. And — a decade later — waned.
Learning to make appealing and informative maps to support your investigative journalism is well worth doing. The good news is that there are significantly more mapping tools available today than there were five years ago and many of them have become very powerful.
Data teams across the globe are still focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with The Economist examining the anti-war protests that have brought Russian citizens to the streets. Others have looked at the impact of flight bans, or been producing trackers to monitor and assess the sanctions that have been imposed as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to go to war.
To share best practices from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on investigative tips and tools for using satellite imagery, flight tracking, and exposing disinformation.
The Sigma Awards celebrate the best in data journalism from around the world. Speaking at the Perugia International Journalism Festival, three of the founders of the award highlighted the best projects of recent years and pointed to what journalists can learn from these data stories.
According to climate models examined by Germany’s Berliner Morgenpost, many places on earth won’t be habitable for humans by the end of this century if nothing is done to curb climate change. Our weekly top ten in data journalism also highlights a story by the Financial Times looking at the recovery of the airline industry, The New York Times’ visualization of Jeff Bezos’ wealth, a study of air raid siren patterns in Ukraine, and the winners of this year’s Sigma Awards.
From college sophomores to 9-to-5 tech workers, open source hobbyist-investigators are gaining huge audiences by reconstructing events on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world.
In GIJN’s weekly Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at Russia’s overconfident war plans, the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the potential for a new malaria vaccine, and the ongoing COVID-19 catastrophe in Hong Kong.