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"Caring for Data’s Soul: The development of a Curation Impact Factor to pinpoint the effects of data curation activities on data quality" https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.1030

How do Data Journalists Design Maps to Tell Stories?
Arlindo Gomes, Emilly Brito, Luis Morais, Nivan Ferreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10903 https://arxi…

How do Data Journalists Design Maps to Tell Stories?
Maps are essential to news media as they provide a familiar way to convey spatial context and present engaging narratives. However, the design of journalistic maps may be challenging, as editorial teams need to balance multiple aspects, such as aesthetics, the audience's expected data literacy, tight publication deadlines, and the team's technical skills. Data journalists often come from multiple areas and lack a cartography, data visualization, and data science background, limiting their compe…

#DH2025 Listening to Victoria and Thea on 'Building a FAIR data future at the Journal of Open Humanities' - I'm hoping you'll see a lot more British Library data papers over time, as along with datasheets for datasets it's a big part of making our open collections findable and usable

Jules Witcover, the journalist known for his long-running syndicated column Politics Today co-written with his Baltimore Sun colleague Jack Germond, died at 98 (Bart Barnes/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/08/18/jules-witcover-dead/

Jules Witcover, political columnist who relished the horse race, dies at 98
He was one of the best-sourced political reporters of his generation, known for a long-running column he wrote with Baltimore Sun colleague Jack Germond.

Dette gjelder definitivt i Norge og! https://mastodon.online/@oz1sej/114866875564600464

Interviewée par Patrick Cohen, Rachida Dati le menace de poursuites judiciaires en direct sur France 5
https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2025/06/19/i…

Interviewée par Patrick Cohen, Rachida Dati le menace de poursuites en direct sur France 5
« France Télévisions apporte tout son soutien aux équipes de “C à vous” et à l’ensemble de ses journalistes », a réagi le groupe public auprès de l’Agence France-Presse.

The Dutch caretaker government just scaled down the offshore wind target for 2040. Nienke Homan, chair of the chemical industry association VNCI, disagrees: "We need vision, guts, and pressing ahead."

Misschien heb je het gezien: ik keek toch moeilijk gisteren op het NOS journaal! | Nienke Homan
Misschien heb je het gezien: ik keek toch moeilijk gisteren op het NOS journaal! Ik mocht namelijk vertellen over de brief van het kabinet over windparken op zee: 🚫 Een slecht signaal én een slecht plan: het afschalen van de ambities voor windparken op zee (naar de ondergrens van de scenario’s) . Waarom dat een slecht signaal en een slecht plan is? 🌬️ Allereerst hebben we enorme hoeveelheden duurzame energie nodig om fossiele brandstoffen en grondstoffen te vervangen en onze CO₂-…

Ich wünsche den Nachmirbleibenden noch viel Spaß im Mittelalter 2.0.

Deconstructing Implicit Beliefs in Visual Data Journalism: Unstable Meanings Behind Data as Truth & Design for Insight
Ke Er Amy Zhang, Jodie Jenkinson, Laura Garrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12377

Deconstructing Implicit Beliefs in Visual Data Journalism: Unstable Meanings Behind Data as Truth & Design for Insight
We conduct a deconstructive reading of a qualitative interview study with 17 visual data journalists from newsrooms across the globe. We borrow a deconstruction approach from literary critique to explore the instability of meaning in language and reveal implicit beliefs in words and ideas. Through our analysis we surface two sets of opposing implicit beliefs in visual data journalism: objectivity/subjectivity and humanism/mechanism. We contextualize these beliefs through a genealogical analysis…

Oxford University Press stops publishing a journal sponsored by China's Ministry of Justice after years of concerns it did not meet standards on DNA collection (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…