awesome-data-journalism

Awesome data journalism

A partial, curated list of publicly available, free/open source and open access resources for learning and doing data journalism.

This repository builds on lists and collections of resources from the first and second editions of the open access Data Journalism Handbook and ongoing research on data journalism practices.

It is used and updated as part of open educational resources for the data journalism MA module at King’s College London.

Suggestions for open access resources or links to add are most welcome. The repository for this page is here.

Data journalism learning
Data journalism updates
Data journalism practices
Data journalism awards, prizes and grants
Data journalism examples
- Outlets
- Portfolios
Further resources

Data journalism learning

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Books

Note: this list focuses on those which are free/open access. There are many wonderful non-free/non-open access books about data journalism (e.g. see here for more).

Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice (second edition, 2021, also available here and here) - “a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field”. Translations and associated resources available here.
The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data (2016) - “a book about the principles behind data journalism”
Data Journalism Handbook (first edition, 2012) - “how journalists can use data to improve the news”. Translations available in Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chinese, French, Greek, Japanese, Spanish and Ukrainian.

Research

Data journalism research - open access bibliography on Zotero

Learning materials

Further tool-specific tutorials are listed below in the working with data section.

Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools and other courses from datajournalism.com
Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools - Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Digital investigations for journalists: How to follow the digital trail of people and entities -
How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets - New York Times
Continue, pivot or put down - “The Pudding’s process to go from idea to data story”
Freely accessible materials from ProPublica’s Data Institute – 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018
datajourn.com - “learn how to find data, extract stories from data, and package data in visual and interactive ways”, from Dylan Freedman at the Washington Post
Data Journalism University Courses and Programmes
Computer-Assisted Reporting and Data Journalism Syllabuses

Communities

#ddj hashtag - e.g. on twitter and mastodon
dataninja - Italy
European Data Journalism Network
Hacks/Hackers
journocoders - London, UK
News nerdery - “international meta organization to foster news nerd collaboration and knowledge sharing”
NICAR - “a forum for the discussion of subjects related to data journalism”
OpenNews
School of Data

Data journalism updates

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Some reading

datajournalism.com
Top 10 in Data Journalism from Eunice Au at the Global Investigative Journalism Network
ddj.news - “weekly newsletter featuring the best of the web for data journalists” from Winny de Jong
Online journalism blog
Digital Investigations - newsletter with tips, techniques and links

Some listening

Some events

Data journalism practices

Critical, reflective, ethical and feminist data practices

Data Feminism (2020) - “a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism”. See also article and poster on data femininsm principles.
Responsibledata.io - “leading the way from best intentions to best practice”
Towards a less harmful data practice - DataMade

Data gathering

Datasets

data is plural - “a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets”
awesome public datasets
r/datasets
dataportals.org

Data settings

Data Biographies: Getting to Know Your Data - Heather Krause, Global Investigative Journalism Network
All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society - open access book by Yanni Alexander Loukissas (MIT Press)
civic data library of context “collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance”
Datasheets for Datasets - “ we propose that every dataset be accompanied with a datasheet that documents its motivation, composition, collection process, recommended uses, and so on”