Data for Journalists: A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting

Houston, Brant

ISBN 10: 0815370407 / ISBN 13: 9780815370406

Published by Routledge 2018-12, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Data for Journalists: A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting
• Publisher: Routledge 2018-12
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815370407
• ISBN 13: 9780815370406
• Binding: PF
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This straightforward and effective how-to guide provides the basics for any reporter or journalism student beginning to use data for news stories. It has step-by-step instructions on how to do basic data analysis in journalism while addressing why these digital tools should be an integral part of reporting in the 21st century. In an ideal core text for courses on data-driven journalism or computer-assisted reporting, Houston emphasizes that journalists are accountable for the accuracy and relevance of the data they acquire and share.

With a refreshed design, this updated new edition includes expanded coverage on social media, scraping data from the web, and text-mining, and provides journalists with the tips and tools they need for working with data.

About the Author

Brant Houston is a Professor and the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, where he teaches journalism and oversees an online newsroom. An award-winning journalist, he was an investigative reporter at U.S. newspapers for 17 years. For more than a decade, he served as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a now 6,000-member association headquartered at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he also taught investigative and data reporting. Houston has conducted more than 400 seminars for professional journalists and students in 30 countries, and he is a co-founder of networks of nonprofit newsrooms and educators throughout the world.