data journalists
Statistics-driven news writers
Data journalists are reporters who use data analysis, statistics, and visualization to uncover and tell stories.
They combine traditional journalism skills with technical abilities—mining databases, building charts, and finding patterns in large datasets.
The field emerged as public records became increasingly digital: Data journalists discovered the city had underreported crime statistics for years.
- investigativeDevoted to examination
- Panama PapersExposed secret shell companies
- infographicsVisual representations of information
- spreadsheetTabular data organizer
- statisticsCollected numerical information
analyst · FOIA requests · datasets · reporting · whistleblowing · Python · public interest · research · SQL · leaks · scatter plots · charts · APIs · public records · interactives · Pulitzer · Tableau · fact-checking
data journalistspundits
Expert commentators on affairs
commentators · op-ed writers · talking heads · polemicists · spin doctors
data journalistsbeat reporters
Journalists assigned regular coverage areas
embedded journalists · oral historians · war correspondents · foreign correspondents
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