This is a great resource for data journalism and comes highly recommended from your very own Amy O’Kruk. It’s an online book and completely free. You can find it here.
The Data Journalism Handbook
Toronto Star: Deadly disorder: Why is chronic anorexia so hard to treat?
This piece published in the Toronto Star is a well written feature on anorexia that uses a personal story as a focal point but also explores myths of the disease, history, and symptoms. Partway down the page is a good example of interactive graphics – a simplistic timeline with multiple tabs that may be good for giving context in longer stories in small chunks.
The story can be found here.
NYT’s evolving model of journalism
The New York Times is planning a major overhaul of how it views and conducts journalism.
The new plans come two years after NYT’s innovation report came out, which was an extensive blueprint of how the paper views itself in the digital age moving forward. The current plan is more tangible — it talks about having ‘clusters’ instead of clumping major topics like climate change under certain desks like National, International or Metropolitan. There are also plans to move away print planning from all editors to dedicated teams of designers and editors for a more extensive focus on digital storytelling.
Here’s a Poynter article on NYT’s plans.
Course: Doing Journalism with Data, First Steps, Skills and Tools
This is a free, video-based course on data journalism available online. It has lectures, tutorials, assignments, readings and discussion forums.
The course has modules which teach journalism students how to find ideas with data analysis, managing messy data and telling stories with visualizations. It is taught by five journalism experts, including university professors and professionals specializing in data.
The course can be found here.
WaPo: A virtual feature on the Obama presidency
This multimedia collection on President Obama’s presidency in the Washington Post is very well done. The entire front end of the feature is presented in full-page graphics. It provides a great template idea for presenting long-form stories and features with timelines.
The story can be found here.
Course: 30 Days to Learn HTML & CSS
The 30 days to learn HTML and CSS course is an online, video course. It’s an effective crash course for anyone looking to learn the basics of HTML & CSS.
The online course is available here. Editors and staff should ask the Gazette editor-in-chief if they need login information.