Entry by Jasmine Linabary
We’ve been talking about database journalism over the past few weeks. Here are some links I’ve come across recently related to the subject that you may find useful.
Conversations and information:
10,000 Words: “Databases and polls: When numbers are the news”
Poynter Online: “Using Data Visualization as a Reporting Tool Can Reveal Story’s Shape”
MediaShift: “An After-Life for Newspapers”
10,000 Words: “News databases: Turning numbers into knowledge”
Readership Institute: “Data as journalism, journalism as data”
Tools:
FusionCharts – to create graphics off of your data for visualization
Tools for News – Check out the pages on tools for data visualization, data scraping and public databases.
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