Brian d’Arcy James plays data journalist Matt Carroll in the movie Spotlight
Spotlight won an Oscar for its portrayal of the Boston Globe’s investigation into institutional silence over child abuse, including some old school data journalism by Matt Carroll. But it’s far from the only example of data journalism shaping policy: Anna Noble asked members of the NICAR-L computer assisted reporting forum for five of their own examples (first published here).
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In case you haven’t seen the tweets and blog posts, that MOOC on data journalism I’m involved in has a start date: May 19.
The launch was delayed a little due to the amount of people who signed up – which I think was a sensible decision.
You can watch the introduction video above, or ‘meet the instructors’ below. Looking forward to this…
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of the delivery team for a free data journalism course online early next year that is being hosted by The European Journalism Centre. Continue reading
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