Data journalism in the newsroom

Location: 8th floor auditorium Date & Time: Tue 18, 11:30 - 13:00

Topic Stream: Data Journalism and Visualisation

Description

Data journalism at The Guardian

Simon Rogers, Data blog editor, The Guardian, UK, @smfrogers

The Guardian and Helsingin Sanomat share their experience on bringing data journalism to the newsroom.

Building News Apps fast and dirty.

How Helsingin Sanomat uses templates to build News Apps that can be made fast from scratch.
Esa Mäkinen Data producer, Helsingin Sanomat

Q&A and discussion

Presentation of other speakers and contributors of the Data Journalism and Visualization -topic stream and discussion about the topic with the speakers.

Bios

SIMON ROGERS

Simon Rogers is editor of the Guardian Datablog (Twitter @GuardianData), an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them – and probably the world’s most popular data journalism website. He is also anews editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the Guardian’s exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the organisation’s coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wikileaks war logs. He was also a key part of the Reading the Riots team which investigated the causes of the 2011 England disturbances.

Previously he was the launch editor of the Guardian’s online news service and has edited the paper’s science section. He has edited two Guardian books: How Slow Can You Waterski and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence. His Factfile UK series of supplements won a silver at the Malofiej 2011 infographics award and the Datablog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media, 2011.

In 2011, Simon was named Best UK Internet Journalist by the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University and won the inaugural XCity award from City University.

Esä Mäkinen

Data editor at Helsingin Sanomat. Esa is the founder of the brand new data group in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. He has pioneered data journalism in Helsingin Sanomat and is the main organizer for HS Open data journalism hackathons. @esamakinen

Session Host

Johanna Vehkoo, Finland, @vehkoo Co-founder of Hacks/Hackers Helsinki. Freelance writer and future-of-journalism preacher. wordpress.vehkoo.com