The data visualization expert argues that FiveThirtyEight and Vox have overpromised and underdelivered — and that they need to treat their data with more scientific rigor.
The NYT's David Leonhardt says The Upshot could be reimagined for local with a staff of no more than three nie.mn/WHcDmB 
Articles tagged explainers (17)
July 9, 2014
April 25, 2014
Plus: The Upshot and the explanatory journalism wave, Slate’s new membership model, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
April 22, 2014
When you commit to explaining the important issues in the news, you commit to a life of updating. What’s the best way to manage a corpus of news knowledge with an uncertain half-life?
January 31, 2014
Plus: An NSA deal is struck, a CNN/Twitter partnership, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
May 22, 2013
“Investigative journalism may have pride of place within the mythology of American news, but that’s not really what journalists have been up to, by and large.”
January 23, 2013
The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism.
June 1, 2012
Plus: News thinkers and journalists rethink the article as a form of journalism, and the rest of the week’s must-reads in media and tech.
November 4, 2011
Accountability journalism, MTV-style.
August 25, 2011
The investigative outfit explores “aggregation in the public interest.”
August 12, 2010
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