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The People’s Newsroom is an initiative to support the creation and sustainability of community projects that reimagine journalism. The news and media industry are failing to authentically serve and ...

Data journalism is simply journalism. The former is a new and trendy term but ultimately, it is just a way of describing journalism in the modern world. As journalists, we don’t think of data as ...

Data obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism raises questions about the use of a new law aimed at tackling domestic abuse. The findings come as a government report estimates 1.2m women and ...

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Thurrock council, a relatively small local authority in Essex, UK, has amassed the largest budget deficit in local government history. How? As a result of ruinous business deals involving huge sums of ...