New book looks at data journalism

Data journalism is a big subject that gets a lengthy treatment in a new book, Data Journalism: Inside the Global Future, out this month from Abramis Academic Publishing in the U.K. The book contains 30 chapters written by U.S. and U.K. journalists, editors, and others, and is an attempt to “understand the many changes occurring in digital journalism, plot them, and in some cases chart the way forward into what is not quite virgin territory for reporters, but certainly a frontier that has only just begun to be charted.”
While a good chunk of the book is focused on U.K.-based initiatives, there’s plenty here for a reader on this side of the Atlantic as well. Below are three excerpts from the book, which you can purchase in the U.S. here.
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