FOI for students: A step-by-step guide
The Society of Professional Journalists seeks to maintain constant vigilance in protecting the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press and encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced freely. If you're unfamiliar with FOI laws, need help submitting a records request or simply don't know where to start, this guide can help.
This site can help you determine if filing a FOIA request is the best option for you and help you create your request when you’re ready.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press: Open Government
The Open Government Guide is a complete compendium of information on every state’s open records and open meetings laws. Each state’s section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press
Assorted current news stories demonstrating journalists use these laws, also known as sunshine acts, open records laws, or right-to-know laws, to tell important stories about what’s happening in government that might otherwise be kept secret.
Data Journalism Academy: What is Data Journalism
Created by data journalist MaryJo Webster, contains materials that she uses to teach basic data journalism concepts to reporters, and occasionally editors.
Free, open source online reference book on data journalism; initiative of the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation. There's a mix of videos, exercises, tipsheets and reading materials to introduce you to both how to work with data, but also some of the bigger concepts you need to learn.
Global Investigative Journalism Network: Data Journalism
A list of resources that include textbooks, organizations, training tutorials & videos on a range of topics including data journalism, data analysis, data visualization, as well as recommended books on statistics, blogs, and conferences.
GIJN: Honoring the Best in Data Journalism: Winners of the 2023 Sigma Awards
Data Journalism Tools: MIT Knight Science Journalism
A collection of resources and tools for finding, analyzing, and presenting data." Includes Data Journalism 101, Training & Tutorials, Conferences, Databases. Data Journalism Toolkit, Further Reading
Databases: MIT Knight Science Journalism
Most great data journalism is the result of insights unearthed from the vast troves of government and other public data that are freely available online. Here, we’ve compiled a selection of some of the most useful and fascinating databases that are available today.
New Orleans, LA -- Kimi Seymour, 27, took a break from pushing her few remaining possessions along Interstate 10.
Thompson, I. (2005). [Photograph]. The Pulitzer Prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-62