There’s something you realize after only a few months of doing data journalism: it’s that rare type of reporting that might lead absolutely nowhere. In your average day-to-day journalism there’s ...

As trust in data becomes more contested, newsrooms face a growing challenge: how to make complex analysis credible, ...

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Generative AI has lowered the barrier to entry for data analysis. More journalists can now work with datasets that previously ...

The New York Times' new data journalism site The Upshot launched on Tuesday, making it the third big new media site to focus on explaining the news with lots of numbers, following Nate Silver's ...

Hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the recent NICAR 2025 data journalism summit unpacked a treasure trove of investigative tools and techniques for the 950 attendees and data experts ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the introduction of Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One is Looking), published last month, OkCupid co-founder ...

“It’s not enough to just drop something into the laps of local teams and hope they’ll use it exactly as-is.” It’s not enough to simply liberate big, messy datasets and hope other journalists will pick ...

This digital training workshop offers a practical introduction to using AI for investigative journalism, focusing on ...

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 ...

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 ...