Our identity; our philosophy (outdated) - graphicsdesk/everything GitHub Wiki
We aren't alone. Almost every professional Graphics desk is struggling to define their role in the newsroom.
Are we moving from an area of coverage (a topic, beat, or location of interest) to focus instead on the method of coverage (538, Upshot)? What are the implications of that for our journalism and our training?
Data is never, ever the story.
A high degree of social privilege is embedded in the public sector data we're looking at. I doubt that any impactful student life reporting, especially at the undergraduate level, will come out of it.
While computers and their capacity for data analysis have improved significantly since [the introduction of computers into news work], journalists have found it challenging to move beyond their established epistemology. This is true of the CAR [computer-assisted reporting] tradition, one built on the belief that "data have no journalistic value on their own" and therefore journalists must work to find the story "hidden" in the data. (Big Data and Journalism)
“The annotation layer is the most important thing we do” —Amanda Cox
Must-see's
https://medium.com/@ben_fry/the-four-cs-of-data-design-6eadd69b05da
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2019/07/aesthetics-as-ethics-jaime-serras.html
http://giorgialupi.com/data-humanism-my-manifesto-for-a-new-data-wold