
How we use R to remember Omayra Sánchez and all the deadly victims of natural disasters
November 19, 2018
In the framework of the Code For All Global Summit, we paid tribute to all the victims of natural disasters.

AbreLatam received Datasketch's Urbano project
September 11, 2017
Datasketch-Urbano continues to talk, this time within the framework of the fifth version of Abrelatam that took place from August 23 to 25 in San José de Costa Rica.

This game helps you learn how to spot fake-news
July 28, 2017
In the fight against fake-news, the designer and filmmaker Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis developed PolitiTruth: a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction in the United States.

Young journalists: this prize is for you!
July 25, 2017
Thomson Foundation, in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA), is inviting young journalists from around the world to submit their most compelling stories.

Apply for a scholarship to cover COP23
July 21, 2017
Climate Change Media Partnership offers a scholarship program that will allow several journalists to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP23) to be held between 6 and 17 November in Bonn, Germany.


Use this guide to be safe while working with Facebook
July 13, 2017
Facebook: Security Guide for Journalists

Google News includes a fact-checking widget in it new version
July 09, 2017
New Google widget that confirms information

Two tools that will help you to make real-time fact-checking
July 09, 2017
Fact-checking against fake news


200 journalist get together in Madrid to face fake news
July 02, 2017
The goal of #GlobalFact4 will be to exchange experiences and address new data verification challenges among media representatives such as The Washington Post, RAI, Le Monde, France Info and organizations such as Full Fact, Checked, Google News Lab or Facebook.

A new Data Journalism Handbook will be published in 2018!
June 27, 2017
The European Journalism Centre and the Google News Lab have decided to relaunch and update the Data Journalism Handbook, published in 2011. Calls for collaborations are opened!

NewsLab launches courses you can make if you don't have time at all
June 25, 2017
The relationship between time and journalism is a complicated one. If the journalists need time to deepen their digital skills for reporting, it might seem like an impossible affair.

Six tips to protect your information
June 21, 2017
The people from Social Tic shared their advice to protect information and, no matter how sophisticated an attack might be.

These are the winners of the #dja2017
June 19, 2017
These are the first international awards recognizing outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide and were given during the DJA Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

The best in #ddj this week!
June 12, 2017
This week we have seen new and very interesting #ddj projects. This is our selection we believe may interest you.

This is how you can think like a Freak when handling data
June 11, 2017
The best-selling Freakonimics authors explain how they’ve been creating a data culture all their own, showing the world how to make smarter, savvier decisions with data. What is their main advice to, in other words, think like a Freak?

Don't miss the best of the Microsoft Summit!
June 11, 2017
If you were not able to fly to Seattle to be part of the conference, you now can get the best of this data analysis event through their live updates and video streaming.

This course will teach everything you need to know about Excel for #ddj
June 04, 2017
Datasets are mostly never clean, neat or organized.They have errors, missing values, wrong formatting… most of the times it’s a nightmare.

This is the ultimate dataset to find reliable sources
June 03, 2017
Wondering where to find reliable datasets you can use to do #ddj? Quartz’s data editor, Chris Groskopf, just released a curated list of useful datasets published by important sources.

Turn boring data into cool GIFs with this tool
May 30, 2017
Want to make your lazy data a cool GIF to tell stories? Google has launched a handy animation tool that essentially lets you transform your illustrations into animated comparison GIFs.

Choose the #dataviz you need according to the 5W questions
May 28, 2017
What do you do to decide which graphic you’ll use when you are telling a story?

Why every journalist should use The Archive's Wayback Machine
May 22, 2017
The Wayback Machine allows anyone to explore historical captures (snapshots) of internet pages. For example, this was the homepage of the Washington Post on September 12th 2001.

Hallelujah! Finally a free PNG image bank
May 22, 2017
The PNGimg platform offers at least 25,000 images in PNG format so you don’t waste time in the tedious process of removing the backgrounds and correcting the images.

This is our pick for the #DJA2017
May 22, 2017
After revising GEN’s choices, we’ve come with our own pick for each category.

This is the #ddj dictionary you've been looking for
May 09, 2017
Navigating the field of data journalism might be hard for those who are just entering the hard relationship between data, storytelling and programming.

ForoCap, the best meeting of journalism in Central America
May 09, 2017
Next week, El Salvador will receive again more than 3,000 journalists from Latin America to discuss the challenges they face while working in the region.

Dataviz.Tools: millions of resources to develop your #ddj skills
April 29, 2017
All the resources you need to develope data journalisim in one place.

Tips to have in mind when choosing an encryption App
April 17, 2017
Protecting information and sources has been fundamental since the beginning of journalism, but the use of technology has made reporters have to look for new methods.

Why #ddj is so much more than cute #dataviz
April 06, 2017
Four European data journalists at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia

Use this tool to compare images and see how time changes all
March 19, 2017
Juxtapose was developed by the Knight Lab to allow users to compare two images.

Build interactive personalized mobile maps
March 15, 2017
Folleto es una moderna biblioteca JS que te permiten diseñar mapas interactivos.

ChartAccent, a tool for Data-Driven Storytelling
March 14, 2017
his library allows you to highlight significant data from your data visualization.

Learn statistics through #dataviz
March 05, 2017
Seeing Theory allows you to learn statistics using interactive visualizations.

Don't miss your chance to apply to the #DJA
February 26, 2017
The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide. The deadline to summit for the 2017 edition is 07 April 2017.

Last chance to submit your proposal to the Data Journalism Awards
April 12, 2016
This year comes the Data Journalism Awards (DJA). These are the awards that for 5 years the organization Global Editors Network have been promoting. These awards have served as a reference and platform to highlight new data journalism projects with a focusing on data processing and structuring.

The best 9 data visualization libraries
April 10, 2016
The need convey information with visualizations has increased with the availability of data sources, and therefore the supply of tools to create visualizations is on the rise. With so much on offer, what visualization tools should you choose for your project?

Scrapping for dummies? Spiranca comes to the rescue
February 28, 2016
After Kimono’s death, many developers and data journalist cried their eyes out. Losing such a good scraping tool made it hard for all of us who use data as our daily input. Luckily, developer Kevin Çobanaj decided to follow Kimono’s steps and will launch Spiranca, a new app that will allow anyone to easily crawl websites and turn them into structured API’s.

University of Hong Kong will offer MOOC on data driven journalism
February 24, 2016
The Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong is offering a five-week course on the fundamentals of data journalism starting 4 April, in partnership with the Google News Lab and top news organisations in Asia.