The panel will outline findings from a recently completed research project looking at collaboration between civil society and journalism organizations. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundatio...
Jacopo Ottaviani
Jacopo Ottaviani works as chief data officer with Code for Africa and was an International Center for Journalists Knight Fellow in 2016-19. He is busy building teams of developers, designers, and storytellers to produce cross-border journalism and develop digital tools for media and civic engagement in Africa and beyond. He builds narratives and visualizations around data, and his work has been published by, among others, Der Spiegel, El País, Al Jazeera International, De Correspondent, and Internazionale.
He won the 2014 Data Journalism Award for The Migrants' Files, a cross-border data project that uncovered exclusive information on the plight of migrants trying to reach Europe. In 2015 he made the web documentary E-waste Republic, which won the 2015 DIG Awards and the 2015 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize. In 2016 he launched Lungs of the Earth, a journey across the rainforests of the world, and Borderline, an interactive atlas of migration in Europe. In 2017 he built such projects as Slumscapes, in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation, and the Search and Rescue open data portal with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières).
Countries across the world are dealing with an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees, with a record 258 million people moving to new countries in 2017. In most of these countries, citizens a...
Are you curious about how data is shaping journalism? What are the latest trends in the field? The new edition of the Data Journalism Handbook (2019) is looking at new and innovative ways in which dat...
Robot Journalism: beyond the hype. How newsrooms in the Global South are using drones, sensors, and satellites for investigative journalism. They were initially dismissed as gadgets for geeks, but dr...
Facelift challenge: Let's get together and find collaborative processes for climate change journalism. Journalists, we have a problem. We need to find new narratives, new sensible ways to use clima...
From Spain to Germany, from France to Italy to Greece: data journalism lives in Europe in multiple stadia. The panel will explore the state of data-driven journalism in Europe content-wise and industr...
What does Italian news publishing already have, what does it lack and what does it need? There are five directives to follow in order to move innovation in digital media in Italy: business models, a...
What do we need to tell great stories with our audiences and community? From tools that help collect and analyze contributions to tools that help us collaborate with readers (and other journalists) ...
Different cross-border projects in the last few years have made it clear that pan-European data-driven journalism is not only a possibility but can also have impact. We want to present a collaborati...
How have journalism and visual storytelling changed in the age of web documentaries and multimedia stories? What are the different ways to do long term cross-media projects without the support of...
From The Migrants Files and Generation E experiences, data journalism has become a distributed and multi-linguistic phenomenon able to shed light on strictly European phenomena and create an unpre...
Kapuściński reloaded, or when innovation embraces reportage. What can be created from the union of data journalism, video reports and field survey? Starting from concrete examples, we will explain h...
Photos
Photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0).