One way to embrace data is by hiring data journalists or by getting trained in data journalism. I co-taught a free online course in data journalism and visualization last year with the Knight Center which more than 12,000+ journalists across the world participated in. Data journalists can make data easier to understand and more relevant to people’s lives by showing impacts at a local level and making them relatable.
As a part of our series about “the 5 steps we can take to win back trust in journalism” I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Simon Rogers.
Simon Rogers is a data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of Facts are Sacred published by Faber & Faber and a new range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Now Data editor at the Google News Lab, Simon previously edited and created guardian.co.uk/data, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them. He has also been a news editor at The Guardian, and was formerly Twitter’s…