Telling Stories with Data: Insights into Data Journalism

📍 virtual MZES, Mannheim

📆 May 26, 2021

Data journalism is all about using and presenting data in a way that readers will intuitively understand them. In this event, we will talk about examples of data-driven stories in order to demonstrate how journalists tell stories using data, what the obstacles are to a good data-driven story and what scientists and journalists can learn from each other regarding data storytelling.

📝 Slides

👤 Yannik Buhl was formerly a data journalist at Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten, where he wrote primarily on mobility turnaround and transport policies using intuitive visualisations (example 1, example 2). Prior to joining the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten, he obtained his MA in Political Science with a focus on quantitative methods from the University of Mannheim.