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Lessons on covering politics from the late David Foster Wallace - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 11 Jul 12
     
    Lessons on covering politics from the late David Foster Wallace COMMENTARY | July 09, 2012 Rule One in covering the presidential campaign, writes Henry Banta, has been to not allow information - even important information - to trump the entertainment factor, especially not in economics reporting. Time to do away with Rule One, Banta says, and stop fearing boredom. "missing variable
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Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? Simon Rogers: Our 10 point guide to data journalism and how it's changing Share  reddit this omnitracker.omniTrackEVarEvent( 12, 16, 'News: Reddit', 'click', '.reddit a' ); Comments (2) Data journalism. What is it and how is it changing? Photograph: Alamy Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.Two years ago, when we launched the Datablog, all this was new. People still asked if getting stories from data was really journalism and not everyone had seen Adrian Holovaty's riposte. But once you've had MPs expenses and Wikileaks, the startling thing is that no-one asks those questions anymore. Instead, they want to know, "how do we do it?"
  • Tom Johnson on 28 Jul 11
     
    Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? Simon Rogers: Our 10 point guide to data journalism and how it's changing Share reddit this Comments (2) Data abstract Data journalism. What is it and how is it changing? Photograph: Alamy Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard. Two years ago, when we launched the Datablog, all this was new. People still asked if getting stories from data was really journalism and not everyone had seen Adrian Holovaty's riposte. But once you've had MPs expenses and Wikileaks, the startling thing is that no-one asks those questions anymore. Instead, they want to know, "how do we do it?"
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