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12 Jun

Vancouver Sun’s Chad Skelton wins Data Journalism Award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Chad Skelton_0.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Vancouver Sun</em>’s Chad Skelton won the Data Journalism Award for the best individual portfolio.</p><p>The award was presented at the Global Editors Network summit in Barcelona.</p>

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9 Jun

Newspapers Canada FOI audit shows disparity in government response

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/General newspapers_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Fred Vallance-Jones, Data Journalism Editor</strong></p>

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27 Mar

When data journalism projects take unexpected turns

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Followthemoney_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>A graphic that was produced by Carleton University journalism students and CBC</em></p>

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20 Feb

Why bother with data-driven journalism?

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/crude_awakening3[1].JPG" title="" /><em>Courtesy globalnews.ca</em></p><p><strong>By</strong> <strong>Anna Mehler Paperny</strong></p><p>Why bother with data-driven journalism?</p><p>Because there’s more data out there than ever before and not nearly enough people asking it questions.</p><p>Because trend stories aren’t good enough. Nor is telling readers something they already know.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: A growing number of colleges and universities now offer data journalism courses

<p><strong>By David McKie, J-Source Ideas Editor</strong></p><p>Over the years, I’ve used this space and countless pages in <em>Media</em> magazine to explain, promote and then explain again the virtues of data journalism.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: How to crowdsource a data journalism course

<p><strong>By Chad Skelton</strong></p><p>One of the dirty secrets about data journalism—one you don’t hear very often in all the hype about how it’s going to revolutionize reporting—is that data journalism is hard. Especially for journalists who are more comfortable with words than spreadsheets and who got into journalism in the first place because they didn’t like math.</p>

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17 Jun

Attention journalists: Federal government makes data site more searchable

<p><strong>By Fred Vallance-Jones</strong>, <strong>J-Source data journalism editor</strong></p><p>The federal government is poised to roll out an upgraded version of its <a href="http://data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1">open data site.</a></p><p>The site, first introduced in 2011, will be significantly improved, with better search abilities and more datasets, said a Treasury Board Secretariat official who spoke at a recent computing conference in Ottawa.</p>

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29 Apr

The Globe and Mail and Global News nominated for Data Journalism Awards

<p>Two Canadian news outlets – <em>The Globe and Mail</em> and Global News -- have been nominated for the <a href="http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/DJA%20PR%20Perugia%2027%20April.pdf">Data Journalism Awards</a>, the only international prize for data-driven journalism.</p><p>72 finalists were shortlisted and the winners of the DJA 2013 will be announced in Paris at the Global Editors Network summit on June 19 to 21. Here are the Canadian projects that garnered nominations:</p>

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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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