In one of the so-called Lightning Talks sessions, data journalists talked about what practices and platforms worked best for them.
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How To Find Data for Asia
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As Mar Cabra of the Panama Papers team stated at the plenary session of the Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, massive electronic leaks are the new norm. Indeed, the smart use of data by journalists generally has been vital in uncovering big business scandals, exposing corruption, and revealing malpractices in both government and private sectors. And Asia and Asian journalists are an integral part of this global trend. At the conference Saturday morning, three well known data journalists from Asia shared their experience on how they collect data for stories and the challenges of digging out more than is publicly available. “It is not easy to get data from the governments in Asia,” observed Adek Media Roza, head of Katadata’s research unit in Jakarta, Indonesia. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia, data journalism, DATABOKS, Hong Kong, IndiaSpend, investigative journalism, Katadata
Investigating War and Conflict
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Someone always benefits from war and it’s up to journalists to make sense of history as it unfolds. Three veteran reporters spoke at the Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference about the challenges and risks of covering conflicts in their countries. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia Investigative Journalism Conference, conflict, data journalism, IJAsia16, investigative journalism, war, war reporting
Data Journalism: Tips & Tools From Uncovering Asia 2016
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Three days of panels and workshops with some of the top investigative journalists and trainers in the world produced an incredible amount of information useful for digging up—and visualizing—powerful stories. In case you missed anything, GIJN compiled presentations from last week’s Uncovering Asia 2016 conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, data journalism, data scraping, mapping, tips and tools
Building Data Teams: Tips for Managers, Muckrakers and Coders
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Newsrooms teams that traditionally included editors, reporters, designers, and photographers are increasingly transforming to make room for data experts. Here’s what you need to know to run a data team. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Autotune, Blacklight, coding, crowdsourced database, data journalism, data project management, Excel
Data Journalism: What’s Next
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Three veteran data reporters talk about the most exciting developments in data journalism, and their favorite tools. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia Investigative Journalism Conference, data, data journalism, IJAsia16, investigative journalism, tools
Panama Papers: Electronic Leaks the ‘New Normal’
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“We are in an era where massive electronic leaks are the new normal. We’ve heard of Wikileaks, NSA documents, Panama Papers. They are coming faster and bigger and there are more yet to come.” Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia Investigative Journalism Conference, Bahamas leak, cross-border journalism, data journalism, database, leaks, Panama Papers
Using Sensors to Democratize Data
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Investigative reporters are constantly finding creative ways to find data, including adapting sensor technology to collect real-time information on air pollution. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, air quality, Asia Investigative Journalism Conference, breathe, data journalism, environment, environmental journalism, India
China: Investigative Journalism Struggles but Survives
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Investigative journalism in China, which enjoyed a period of vitality from the mid-1990s to around 2013, is struggling to survive today as the government steps up its control of traditional and digital media. In recent years, a government crackdown has driven an exodus of veteran investigative journalists from the news media. Some have landed at cash-rich Internet companies, others at startups and philanthropic ventures. Still others have abandoned the media industry all together. Meanwhile, globalization, technological changes, and market pressures have shifted the paradigm for in-depth and enterprising reporting on China. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia investigative reporting, China, data journalism, investigative reporting, Press Freedom
Survey Highlights Need for Use of RTI Laws By Pakistan Journalists
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Journalists surveyed in Pakistan are lacking in harnessing the potential of data journalism: as a survey found that majority of the respondents did not utilize Right to Information laws to obtain official data and only a handful of journalists knew how to scrape data from the web. Continue Reading →