Finding different stories in the data (MA Data Journalism taster day part 2)
Channel: onlinejournalist
Date: 14/06/2019

This is a screencast showing the second part of a class delivered on the MA Data Journalism taster day at Birmingham City University (1st part here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itxv-s1rRJM&feature=youtu.be). 

It covers: 

- How journalists respond to the release of a new dataset, and different angles you might adopt in reporting 
- Story structure and style in reporting news stories about data
- Things to consider about sources of data and jargon used

You can find the data and some tips on finding stories in it here: https://github.com/paulbradshaw/genderpaygap
Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/onlinejournalist/data-journalism-taster-day-introduction-to-data-journalism-149651417
Station usage data: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage
Gender pay gap data: https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/viewing/download

Find out more about the MA and PGCert in Data Journalism at https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/courses/data-journalism-ma-2019-20
Contact: paul.bradshaw@bcu.ac.uk