Every other conversation about journalism seems to be about it dying. But it’s not dead yet, and the best hope to save it is already here — if we let it. The emerging field of data journalism has ...

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

In the post‑pandemic news cycle, it became easy to treat charts as a kind of journalistic spell: visualize the data and legitimacy will follow. But the flood of partisan “stat dumps” has trained ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will ...

High-quality data journalism serves as a powerful tool in revealing complex environmental issues, transforming raw data into compelling narratives that illuminate the hidden stories behind the numbers ...

This is an introductory guide on how to produce the beginnings of a piece of data journalism. We’re going to walk through it together, as I outline the key things to consider before starting. We’ll ...

Journalists and journalism students can register for this online training in Spanish. The Center for Digital Journalism at the University of Guadalajara is offering a course on data visualization Jan.

Information overload and lack of transparency in government are perennial challenges for journalists, so having reliable and powerful tools can make the difference between a hunch and a major ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from ...

Data visualizations can affect whether and how people understand and interpret data. Researchers and writers using data visualizations face choices about which data to use or emphasize. Those ...