Data for Journalists: A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting

With a refreshed design, this thoroughly updated new edition includes expanded coverage on social media and new boxes providing readers with the tips and tools they need for computer-assisted reporting.

Author: Brant Houston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/22/2018
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780815370406

About the Author

Brant Houston is a Professor and the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, where he teaches journalism and oversees an online newsroom. An award-winning journalist, he was an investigative reporter at U.S. newspapers for 17 years. For more than a decade, he served as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a now 6,000-member association headquartered at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he also taught investigative and data reporting. Houston has conducted more than 400 seminars for professional journalists and students in 30 countries, and he is a co-founder of networks of nonprofit newsrooms and educators throughout the world.