ODI Friday Lunchtime Lecture: The ups and downs of data journalism

With increasing accusations of ‘fake news’, spin and highly influential public relations flying around, data is becoming more widely used in stories to back up their claims with evidence their readers can verify. How has data journalism developed? What are the challenges and opportunities that data can present to journalists? How easy is it for journalists to access useful data and build stories from it? Londonist Editor James Drury will explore these questions, using real-life examples from Londonist.com and others, and whether the most important newsroom resource of the future could be Excel. About James Drury A journalist for 18 years, James is currently Editor in Chief at londonist.com, a website all about London. Through its editorial, videos, weekly podcast and daily newsletters it is read by two million people every month, and has almost two million social media followers.