Newsrooms worldwide are trying to infuse their reporting with more data and computational analysis (see: The New York Times’ data training). The engineering-heavy Washington Post newsroom has used ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. Communication Prof. Nick Diakopoulos grew up in a family of journalists. His father spent years working at The ...

We live in a data society. Journalists are becoming data analysts and data curators, and computation is an essential tool for reporting. Data and computation reshape the way a reporter sees the world ...

“As computational techniques become more widespread, and newsrooms use fancier statistics to analyze data, there is a new genre of journalism emerging: the journalistic white paper.” When I started ...

With data journalism becoming a mainstay in the media vernacular, some journalism schools recognize the need to mirror the trend in their curricula. But one university is making data a requirement.

The Washington Post’s newly launched elections engineering team will establish a computational political journalism R&D lab in the newsroom this fall. Under the leadership of Jeremy Bowers, the team ...

Through its Digital News Initiative launched last April, Google has selected three projects to honor with its Computational Journalism Research Award in Europe. Google says that each project it ...

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