Clara Fors Wisbyse

The example I have chosen is called “M29 – Berlin’s bus line of great differences”. Unfortunately the original article is in German but I found it so enchanting that I decided to translate it and use it anyway. You can find it by link here (open in google chrome to translate) or translated in attached … Read more

Joe Skillicorn

This article acts as a poll tracker for the upcoming US election. It offers some brief information in writing format before using graphs for some of the swing states to show what the polls are saying. You are also able to drag the line of the graph back and forth over different time periods to … Read more

Merel Gelders

BODY COUNT – Nazmul Ahasan https://interactive.netra.news/extrajudicial-killings-bangladesh/?ref=sigmaawards.org (Winner of a Sigma Award in 2024) Body Count, published by Netra News, powerfully uses data analysis to reveal extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh. This article is a strong example of data journalism due to its in-depth use of data, interactive visuals, and a structured narrative. It is transparent about … Read more

Kristofer Andersson

WHEN HITLER MADE A TEAM PULL OUT, THE WORLD CUP WITHOUT A FINAL – And Other FIFA World Cup Stories You Haven´t Heard Of FIFA World Cup: They Won the World Cup Without a Final & 12 Other Astonishing Stories This is an example of high-standard data journalism that uses data visualization to tell a … Read more

Camilla Wasén

https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-megabits-you-may-be-paying-400-times-as-much-as-your-neighbor-for-internet-service (Winner of a Sigma Award in 2023) This article investigates internet access across the US, uncovering that internet providers charge different prices for the same internet speed, primarily affecting low-income and non-white neighbourhoods. The journalists have done a beautiful job making sense of the data in an engaging way, completing the story with interviews, … Read more

Owen Carpenter-Zehe

A good example of Data Journalism; https://www.vox.com/2018/1/8/16822374/school-segregation-gerrymander-map This article does an excellent job explaining the intricacies of school zoning in America, along with why and how they can drawn to increase or decrease racial segregation. It has solid and readable charts that guide the reader through deciphering school zone diversity maps, and has a clipart … Read more

Elin Nilsson

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/nov/23/younger-australians-buck-entrenched-political-trend-as-new-kind-of-adulthood-bites?fbclid=IwY2xjawGVpUFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUAcwJr92QtdSJyuoRzO1cu1wJ9elR6nIU8obrFGCd4ybtu7XoO_YoLt7A_aem_hMi-U1n1AI2vSBoyHmAc-A This article from The Guardian focuses on the younger political voters in Australia and how they differ from earlier generations. The article uses graphs to explain a greater picture of the Australian voters together with other journalistic elements, like interviews. There aren’t too many graphs, compared to the length of the article, and … Read more

Emily Hellichius Georgsson

Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/05/homeless-australians-are-dying-at-44-on-average-in-hidden-crisis The article “Homeless Australians are dying at age 44 on average in hidden crisis” reveals a huge gap in life expectancy for homeless people in Australia through an investigation of more than 600 death cases – which shows systematic flaws. By using both graphs and statistics to visualise the numbers for … Read more

Isa Baas

https://ig.ft.com/uber-game This piece of data journalism is a game that aims to understand how it feels to be an Uber driver and try to make a living in the gig economy. I like the fact that it is an interactive game; it makes it very appealing and also gives the ‘reader’ the opportunity to connect … Read more