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The Cool Grey City of Data: inside the San Francisco Chronicle’s data team

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Dan Kopf⁠ and ⁠Nami Sumida⁠ join Simon and Alberto to discuss how the SF Chronicle tells data stories, such as Sumida’s ⁠recent exploration of the city’s Japantown⁠ (sub required) and the WW2 internment that nearly destroyed it. The team discuss what makes the Bay Area such a rich source of data journalism … Continue reading

Data journalism for the people! Ben Welsh and MaryJo Webster on the state of local data journalism

How do you make data journalism that matters to people about where they live? In the latest Data Journalism Podcast, Alberto and Simon explore local data journalism with two of the leading practitioners of the field. MaryJo Webster is the data editor for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and has devoted herself to training data journalists. Ben Welsh is the … Continue reading

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