It’s hard enough to report, write, edit and produce the news these days but, even if you can do all of that well, you may need additional skills to survive and thrive in a digital-first newsroom. Some are obvious: You’d…
Tag: Data
Data and graphics create a new kind of journalist
5 easy ways to better produce an online story
Infographic and timeline tools made easy
Simple, interactive graphic on gun control
Information is beautiful
Getting results from a public records request
Why journalists should learn to love data
Journalists are notorious for hating anything to do with math. If we’d been any good with numbers, I often joke, we might have chosen a different career. But it’s essential for today’s journalists to get comfortable working with data, and…
News with numbers
A friend of mine calls her journalism students “do-gooders who hate math.” But journalists need math skills to make sense of numbers the way they need language skills to make sense of words. The truth is, math is not rocket…