ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how data journalism expertise, its activities, products, mindsets and epistemologies, are being defined and conceptualized within journalism education, from the proliferation of data journalism courses globally to self-taught, peer learning, and workshops organized by professional organizations. It includes a discussion of a data visualization course for journalists taught by Tamara Munzner, a computer scientist and an expert on information visualization at the University of British Columbia. The chapter identifies four domains of data journalism: data reporting, data visualization and interactives, emerging technologies such as VR and computational journalism. Data journalism is quickly becoming an in-demand expertise in journalism education globally. A number of distinctions and typologies have been created in the data journalism literature trying to isolate it as a coherent set of forms, practices, logics and identities from genres such as visualization to investigative to disciplinary mindsets and methodologies.
