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The Data Journalism Podcast Alberto Cairo & Simon Rogers
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Hosts Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers will explore the latest in data journalism. You will meet the world’s top data journalists - and you will find out how they do what they do.
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Sisi Wei: data stories at The Markup and CalMatters
Sisi Wei is the Chief Impact Officer at CalMatters & The Markup, based in New York. Sisi founded the DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms and was the Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica. She has also won the Gwen Ifill Award.
Alberto chats with Sisi about her work and how she approaches telling stories with data.
The music this episode, made with TwoTone, is from Sisi and represents rthe temperature in NYC in June 2024 -
AI and data journalism: the AP's Garance Burke
Garance Burke is a global investigative reporter for the Associated Press, with a focus on reporting around Artificial Intelligence. She wrote the chapter of the AP style guide around reporting on AI and leads a team which works with data to tell stories every day. She joins Simon and Alberto to discuss the implications for data journalism.
The music this episode, made with TwoTone, is from Garance and represents Bills brought before Congress around AI over time. -
How the Pulitzer Center does data journalism
How does the Pulitzer Center create such great data journalism? Alberto and Simon are joined by Doménica Montaño, the Center's program coordinator for environmental investigations. Working with terrific data journalists like director Gustavo Faleiros and Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, the team produces groundbreaking data work. Doménica explains what it takes to make that work come to life.
The music this episode, made with TwoTone, is based on tree cover in Brazil. -
The Cool Grey City of Data: inside the San Francisco Chronicle's data team
Dan Kopf and Nami Sumida join Simon and Alberto to discuss how the SF Chronicle tells data stories, such as Sumida's recent exploration of the city's Japantown (sub required) and the WW2 internment that nearly destroyed it. The team discuss what makes the Bay Area such a rich source of data journalism and how the Chron approaches it each day.
The music this episode, made with TwoTone, is US Berkeley’s in-state acceptance rate. -
Anna Brand: data journalism for CNN
Anna Brand is the Managing Editor for Data and Graphics at CNN Digital. She chats with Simon and Alberto about building a data journalism team at the news outlet, explains how it works and what inspires her.
The music this week, made with TwoTone, is based on the data behind this CNN Digital story about Halloween candy. -
Holiday special: why data storytelling matters
It’s a different kind of podcast this week: Simon and Alberto talk about Alberto’s latest book, The Art of Insight, why data journalism is still a dream job and our approaches to working with numbers to tell stories. Find out what books got us here - and what we care about most, when it comes to data storytelling.
The music this week, made with TwoTone, is based on snowfall in Central Park from 1869 from this dataset, via weather.gov.
Customer Reviews
Good podcast, terrible audio quality
I really want to listen to this, but it’s so difficult to make out what they were saying in some episodes. The episode about The Pudding was especially bad.