Great data journalism is often seen as a resource-intensive exercise that only huge newsrooms can afford to indulge in. But the speakers in this panel prove that's not the case. Working in small teams...
Simon Rogers
Simon Rogers is an award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. He is co-host of The Data Journalism Podcast with Alberto Cairo and author of Facts are Sacred, published by Faber & Faber around the world. He has also written a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Sigma Data Journalism Awards and teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco and has taught at University of California Berkeley Journalism school. He was previously the founding data editor at The Guardian in London and data editor at Twitter.
How do data journalists work? Who do they collaborate with, and what are the latest trends and sought after skills within the field? These are just some of the questions The State of Data Journalism S...
The Sigma Awards is a new data journalism competition which aims to celebrate the best data journalism around the world, but also to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journal...
Data journalism is thriving around the world. This panel will cover some of the very best work happening around the globe, and what we can learn from it.
How can we have conversations with data? Is working with data like a conversation? How is data being used as a “source” in journalism, alongside interviews and other content? How are journalists u...
How do you get the most out of Google Trends? What tools does Google provide to help data journalists - and what is coming in this area? Sit down with Data Editor Simon Rogers to find out more about w...
Twitter is a social broadcasting network where information flows in real time. This workshop aims at providing journalists, news editors and media professionals with the best tools and techniques to d...
Elections in the internet age: data journalism and social media for describing the vote
How has election reporting changed? New forms of journalism, from data journalism with interactive maps and infographics to social networks with hashtag, livetwitting and sentiment analysis are being ...
Data journalists are not alone: every month sees the arrival of new tools designed to help journalists, data scientists and activists to analyse and visualise data. CartoDB, Datawrapper, Fusion Tables...
We hear a lot about how we can improve tweeting, the best time to tweet and how to use hashtags. This panel will look more closely at areas not typically addressed in articles and on panels. Storie...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
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