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A collection of 17 issues

Icons of the dead: visualising the deaths of migrant workers in Qatar.

Update: The data from the WaPo story was challenged by the Qatar Government resulting in an amendment stating that the data was deaths for all migrants not just those working on world cup venues. Something, in a uncharacteristic bit of comment baiting,Roy Greenslade felt the need to point out

Data Journalism: Meyerism and Vox's new data team.

A few weeks back I wrote a post about Data Journalism and how it was defined [http://digidickinson.net/2015/01/23/when-is-data-journalism-not-data-journalism/] (on Wikipedia at least). So I was interested to read Vox’s take on it when they announced, last Wednesday, that they were creating a Vox data

When is data journalism not data journalism?

When it’s data driven journalism…. I’m doing lit-review at the moment (this might sound academic but it essentially consists of me yellow-highlighter-penning-the-feck out of papers and journal articles) and I came across a little loop in defining data journalism that got me thinking, thanks to Wikipedia. Look at

Doing data in a journalism course

It’s a subject that isn’t going away and it’s also one that generate a huge amount of debate – data journalism. If ever there was a perfect hook to hang all of journalisms best and worst it’s data journalism! But a recent flurry of tweets and a

Data journalism: Making it real

The following is an edited version of a chapter I contributed to a new book Data Journalism: Mapping the Future, published by Abramis academic publishing. [http://www.abramis.co.uk/books/bookdetails.php?id=184549616] The fact that I’m in it aside, I can heartily recommend it as a

Does Data Journalism help democracy?

I’m writing a book chapter on data journalism (I know, who isn’t these days) which I’ll share more of when it makes sense! But one of the areas that is giving me real pause for thought at the moment is the question of how much data journalism

Channel 4 and ITN sign new deal

Channel 4 have signed a new five-year contract with ITN for production of Channel 4 News up to the end of 2010, that will see the news service extend its new media operations. (http://www.netimperative.com/2006/04/07/C4_News [http://www.netimperative.com/2006/04/07/C4_