What does it take to get started with data journalism? Knight International Journalism Fellow Sandra Crucianelli outlines the basic skills needed to get the job done.
This free tool will come in handy when you need to clean up data for your next investigative project. IJNet prepared a basic guide on how to use it and a list of helpful resources to get you started.
You probably use Google every day and may think you know all it offers, but here are some great but lesser-known tools that the company featured in a digital media training session.
The Guardian Datastore, The Bay Citizen and The Texas Tribune, honored at the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards and Symposium for Innovations in Journalism, are creating data stories that inspire readers and drive traffic.
Sandra Crucianelli, a TV reporter and expert on social networks, tells IJNet why personal branding is good for journalists and how to interact with readers on Facebook.
Amid the chaos of the London riots, several news outlets put together powerful infographics to explain the breaking story. Here are IJNet's top picks for infographics that put the U.K. riots in perspective.