With newsrooms well down the digital path, data journalism is increasingly becoming a standard toolset reporters must master. Our latest Reporter's Toolbox is a four-step primer designed to help you use readily available tools to collect, clean up and analyze data, then use it to tell your stories. Image: © Clipart.com
The good news is that in the nuke business, virtually everything is meticulously documented — somewhere. One just has to take the time to find it, since that is where the real story is.
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IRE/NICAR's Liz Lucas and Andrew Kreighbaum provide a plethora of tips for using the NID database to cover infrastructure or breaking news involving one of the nation's >85,000 dams.
Climate Central science writer John Upton explains how to use the visualization tool that brings to virtual life the climate- and weather-related data generated by the 13 federal agencies that collaborate to form the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Caroline D'Angelo of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting shares some of what they’ve learned about the industry so you can put it to work in repurposing your older, evergreen content and think about new ways to present future work. Photo, by PCCR's Meghan Dhaliwal: Buck Lodge Middle School students read the Center's e-book "In Search of Home."
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