{Doubling down on data

ASNE 2015Jennifer LaFleur, CIR | Reveal

What is data

journalism?

• Analyzing data to produce stories or interactive tools

• Providing value to the data – not just regurgitating it

• Applying data on any beat

There are no unicorns

Avoid the bottleneck

• Everyone should have basic spreadsheet skills

• Build a library of data

• Build internal data tools

Getting it the rightest

you can

• Develop procedures for bullletproofing

• Document projects and procedures

• Archive data and programs. They likely will come in

handy in the future.

Plan projects

• How often will you update it?

• How much do you want to invest?

• Will readers have a reason to return?

• Build templates for quicker turn interactives

Use the right tool

Think of new ways to show data

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