Computational Journalism Watch

Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found. The systematic attacks by …

The Cossacks played an important role in the formation of the Russian Empire. They lived in communities called hosts on the edges of the empire. They operate under a military hierarchy ruled by a …

There’s a certain feeling I get when I file freedom-of-information ( FOI ) requests. It’s similar to how I feel at the DMV , perhaps, or at the passport renewal office–the feeling that a …

A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to web …

Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock . You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools ! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent …

I don’t think I truly understood which features and voices made Twitter so special for journalism until we suddenly lost them. Since Elon Musk took over, Twitter has cut the trust and safety team, …

Data on LGBTQ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to relying on. At the end of the day, though, doing good LGBTQ data journalism …

In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ …

“Where did you learn to teach?” This is the question that the authors of this post–all recently appointed professors of data journalism–found themselves confronted with after their first semester of …

Data about LGBTQ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and questions seeking to understand those communities. But between spotty …