Talk given at Newcastle University, March 2020

1. @PaulBradshaw, BBC Data Unit
MA Journalism Course Leader, Birmingham City University
Author: Scraping for Journalists, Finding Stories in Spreadsheets, Data
Journalism Heist, Online Journalism Handbook
Journalism
+ data

2. https://leanpub.com/u/paulbradshaw
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/

3. ● Identify story leads and ideas
● Gather information to turn those into stories
● Report stories to a specific audience
What I do...

4. Paul Bradshaw, Data Journalism Handbook
http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/introduction_0.html

6. 1. Who is top/bottom
2. Freak occurrence/unusual change
3. Policy is not working
4. Trend
5. Striking statistic
Reactive stories

7. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38719087

8. Evening Standard;
● Headline verbs: ‘revealed’, ‘named’. Keywords.
● “New figures” - not bogged down with source detail
● Consider audience: London is the focus
● No quotes. Who could they have interviewed?

9. https://pinboard.in/u:paulbradshaw/t:gender+dj+pay
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gender-pay-gap/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gender-pay-gap

10. Proactive stories
1. State of nation/Face behind figures
2. “Huge differences” between areas
3. Claim debunked or supported
4. Things happen together
5. Lack of data/transparency
6. Information is flawed

11. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gender-income-gap-birmingham-its-15940113
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/north-east-gender-pay-gap-16085565

12. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/10/gender-pay-gap-widening-at-one-in-four-government-bodies-figures-show
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/25/gender-pay-gaps-in-academy-school-chains-among-the-worst-in-uk

14. https://www.thedetail.tv/articles/20-mph-school-road-safety

16. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/28/what-you-need-to-know-about-gender-pay-gap-reporting
https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2018/apr/06/the-truth-about-gender-pay-gap-video-explainer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43668187

17. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a27042068/gender-pay-gap-2019-best-worst-companies/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/the-uk-companies-reporting-the-biggest-gender-pay-gaps

18. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41805053
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2018/apr/04/gender-pay-gap-when-does-your-company-stop-paying-women
-in-2018

19. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11529421/Mapped-The-worlds-immigration-la
ndscape.html

20. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42611365
https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/gender-pay-gap

21. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1009433445032976389?s=09

22. ● What people say (text)
● What people do (behaviour)
● Live data
● Images, audio, video
Everything is 011001

24. http://amourier.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/van-gogh%e2%80%99s-starry-night-
%e2%80%93-arlene%e2%80%99s-interpretation-in-tesserae-mosaic-tiles/

26. https://pudding.cool/2017/08/screen-direction/
https://github.com/juliasilge/women-in-film

27. http://qz.com/650796/mathematicians-mapped-out-every-game-of-thrones-relationship-to-find-the-main-character
/

29. Julia Wolfe, WSJ, quoted in Cairo (2017) Nerd Journalism

30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fkZA8x68k