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24 Apr

Protecting playgrounds for the rich: The Conservative government’s omnibus budget bill gave “cottages” in certain Conservative ridings special treatment

<p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15.987500190734863px; font-size: 10px;">By Glen McGregor, for Media Magazine</strong></p>

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24 Apr

The emergence of the market for data-journalism skills

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By David McKie</strong></p>

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23 Apr

Five free visualization tools recommended by Global’s data desk

<p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/global%E2%80%99s-data-journalism-team-%E2%80%9C-first%E2%80%9D-canada">Global News data desk</a> journalist <a href="http://www.patrickcain.ca/">Patrick Cain</a> outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools:</p><p><strong>1/ Google Fusion Tables</strong></p>

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23 Apr

From open data to open code: The Guardian launches Miso project

<p>New for your reporter toolkit is code that will allow you to make data visualizations just like <em>The Guardian</em>.</p>

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24 Oct

Election night as teaching opportunity

ByFred Vallance-Jones Journalists love to cover elections. And no wonder. Election nights are fast-paced, can be unpredictable, provide instant stories of joy and tears and require quick thinking and writing […]

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21 Feb

Syllabi for computer-assisted reporting courses

A select list of links from the Investigative Reporters and Editors to some of the best courses in computer-assisted and investigative reporting.

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21 Feb

A guide to computer-assisted reporting

An article, from the Poynter Institute, about how computer-assisted reporting enriches newspaper stories.

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21 Feb

More syllabi for computer-assisted reporting courses

A broad collection of links to a variety of university-level computer-assisted reporting courses.

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20 Sep

Resources for teaching computer-assisted reporting

CARinCanada is a website where Canadian journalists can learn about computer-assisted reporting in Canada, and get weekly tips to help them use spreadsheets and databases in their reporting. The site […]

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