What is the status of data-driven journalism? Where are journalists progressing, where are the barriers to get started? Using data for daily reporting might be helpful, but how can journalists and new...
Mirko Lorenz
Mirko Lorenz is a journalist, information architect and trainer for data-driven journalism. He is the co-founder of Datawrapper, a popular tool to create charts and maps.
In his role as Innovation Manager for Deutsche Welle he participates in European Research projects, with a focus on developing new tools for the newsroom. He contributed to the Data Journalism Handbook and served as the director of the Data Journalism Awards in 2014. Together with Bahareh Heravi he currently conducts a Global Data Journalism Survey, with first results being presented in Perugia 2017.
A brief introduction to train all journalists on effective use of line charts, bar charts, pies and combinations. The main goal is to teach what makes a correct, basic chart and why. Level: beginner...
For the last few years the rise of data journalism has generated some hope that newsrooms could make use of new technologies for better reporting. But what about enabling newsrooms to create new servi...
