"This evening I saw something that made me smile, and think. A homeless guy selling a magazine got on the train and introduced himself by name. Such a small, but important personal touch. He must have gotten money from a quarter of the carriage…"
#DDJBook started to inspire aspiring data journalists to treat data as a source, dig deep into it and rehash it to find stories and present it in ever more exciting ways for an increasingly demanding audience. The Handbook started at Mozilla Festival in 2011, when we managed to convince a group of the world’s leading data journalists to lock themselves in a room for two days, 8 months later, the book was launched at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia…
Together with Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, I edited and contributed to the book.
