The data journalism handbook : towards a critical data practice The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field. With more than 50 chapters from leading researchers and practitioners of data journalism it explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also gives a behind the scenes look at the social lives of datasets data infrastructures and data stories in newsrooms media organizations startups civil society organizations and beyond. The book includes sections on doing issues with data assembling data working with data experiencing data investigating data platforms and algorithms organizing data journalism learning data journalism together and situating data journalism. Frontmatter Table of Contents Introduction Doing Issues With Data 1. From Coffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations Into How the Poor Feed the Rich 2. Repurposing Census Data to Measure Segregation in the United States 3. Multiplying Memories while Discovering Trees in Bogotá 4. Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem 5. Mapping Crash Incidents to Advocate for Road Safety in the Philippines 6. Tracking Worker Deaths in Turkey Assembling Data 7. Building Your Own Data Set: Documenting Knife Crime in the United Kingdom 8. Narrating a Number and Staying With the Trouble of Value 9. Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Implications for Data Journalism 10. Alternative Data Practices in China 11. Making a Database to Document Land Conflicts Across India 12. Reassembling Public Data in Cuba: Collaborations When Information Is Missing Outdated or Scarce 13. Making Data With Readers at La Nación 14. Running Surveys for Investigations Working With Data 15. Data Journalism: What’s Feminism Got to Do With I.T. 16. Infrastructuring Collaborations Around the Panama and Paradise Papers 17. Text as Data: Finding Stories in Text Collections 18. Coding With Data in the Newsroom 19. Accounting for Methods: Spreadsheets Scripts and Programming Notebooks 20. Working Openly in Data Journalism 21. Making Algorithms Work for Reporting 22. Journalism With Machines From Computational Thinking to Distributed Cognition Experiencing Data 23. Ways of Doing Data Journalism 24. Data Visualizations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday Engagements 25. Sketching With Data 26. The Web as Medium for Data Visualization 27. Four Recent Developments in News Graphics 28. Searchable Databases as a Journalistic Product 29. Narrating Water Conflict With Data and Interactive Comics 30. Data Journalism Should Focus on People and Stories Investigating Data Platforms and Algorithms 31. The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation 32. Telling Stories With the Social Web 33. Digital Forensics: Repurposing Google Analytics IDs 34. Apps and Their Affordances for Data Investigations 35. Algorithms in the Spotlight: Collaborative Investigations at Der Spiegel Organizing Data Journalism 36. The #ddj Hashtag on Twitter 37. Archiving Data Journalism 38. From The Guardian to Google News Lab: A Decade of Working in Data Journalism 39. Data Journalism’s Ties With Civic Tech 40. Open Source Coding Practices in Data Journalism 41. Data Feudalism: How Platforms Shape Cross border Investigative Networks 42. Data Driven Editorial Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics Learning Data Journalism Together 43. Data Journalism Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery 44. The Datafication of Journalism: Strategies for Data Driven Storytelling and Industry–Academy Collaboration 45. Data Journalism by about and for Marginalized Communities 46. Teaching Data Journalism 47. Organizing Data Projects With Women and Minorities in Latin America Situating Data Journalism 48. Genealogies of Data Journalism 49. Data Driven Gold Standards: What the Field Values as Award Worthy Data Journalism 50. Beyond Clicks and Shares: How and Why to Measure the Impact of Data Journalism Projects 51. Data Journalism: In Whose Interests 52. Data Journalism With Impact 53. What Is Data Journalism For Cash Clicks and Cut and Trys 54. Data Journalism and Digital Liberalism Index