Data journalism might seem still a fancy, expensive business that only big national media outlets like The New York Times or The Economist can afford. But very often data at local level is widely avai...
Megan Lucero
Megan Lucero is the Director of The Bureau Local - an award-winning newsroom and people-powered reporting network - part of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the largest non-profit investigative news organisation in the UK. The Bureau Local is pioneering a new way to do grassroots, participatory, public interest journalism that represents communities and sparks positive change. They have also launched The People’s Newsroom, an infrastructure project to diversify, catalyse and sustain community newsrooms.
Nationwide collaborations on local investigative reporting in Germany and the UK
Newsrooms at local and national level are facing a financial crisis that means more expensive investigative reporting is under threat. Yet there has never been more need for journalism that holds powe...
Data in investigative journalism: how computing can advance public interest reporting
Over the past few years, The Times and Sunday Times have broken several exclusives that led to international outcry and institutional change, due in part to their investment in a computational inves...
Are we living in the golden age of investigative journalism? What happens when traditional reporting meets modern data analysis? Stories, case studies and techniques.
