Simon Rogers (journalist)

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Simon Rogers is an English data journalist, data journalism advocate and author. He pioneered the use of a data blog for The Guardian in the early 2000s, and has been involved in data journalism since the mid-2000s.

Career

In the mid-2000s, Rogers was data editor at the Guardian, one of the first news organisations to use the term data journalism in its use of computing and data in storytelling. [1] Previous iterations of using data in journalism have been referred to as computer-assisted reporting, precision journalism, power reporting and database reporting.

His work with the Guardian's The Datastore and the Datablog was honoured at the Knight Batten awards for innovation in journalism, 2011. [2] In 2010, the Royal Statistical Society, a nonprofit based in England and Wales, awarded Rogers a special commendation for Statistical Excellence in Journalism, [3] citing the Datablog. In 2012, Rogers predicted the future of data journalism: "Anyone can do it. Data journalism is the new punk." [4] In 2013, Rogers published Facts are Sacred: the power of data [5] (the Guardian published an extract of the book); he has also authored books on infographics for children.

After the Guardian, in 2013, Simon moved to Twitter, as its first data editor, [6] before moving again, to Google in San Francisco where he works as the data editor for Google.

At Google, he has been a part of the 'Visualizing Data with Google' project, [7] which received 'Information is Beautiful' Awards in 2017 and 2022. [8] Rogers' work has been featured by Information is Beautiful multiple times. He is one of the instructors of an online course in data journalism made available by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. [9] In 2017, Rogers spoke at the 12th Congress of Investigative Journalism about the importance of journalists learning to code. [10]

In 2019, Rogers predicted that data journalism was becoming a global field; he was one of a selected group of journalists asked by the Nieman Lab out of Harvard University to make predictions for journalism for 2019. [11] Rogers' work was also cited in a Columbia Journalism Report [12] about the ethics of AI and journalism. In 2020, Rogers helped launch the Sigma Awards, [13] a new data journalism competition. After the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Rogers tracked trends in Google related to the pandemic. [14] [15]

Rogers is one of the contributing authors to the Data Journalism Handbook [16] and teaches data journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco and has taught at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2021, Rogers set up a 'Data Journalism Podcast', with co-host Alberto Cairo. [17] He is a regular speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Rogers, Simon (July 28, 2011). "Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?" – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. ↑ Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Retrieved: 14 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "The Royal Statistical Society - awards" (PDF). 2010.
  4. ↑ "Anyone Can Do It - Data Journalism Is The New Punk". The Guardian. 24 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Rogers, Simon (2013). Facts Are Sacred. Faber & Faber. ISBN   9780571301614.
  6. ↑ "Guardian's Simon Rogers to join Twitter as data editor | Media news". www.journalism.co.uk. April 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ Visualizing Data with Google project
  8. ↑ The Shape of Dreams. Information is Beautiful Awards. Accessed 16 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas".
  10. ↑ Cruz, Jessica (3 August 2017). "Why Journalists Need Data and Coding Skills More Than Ever". International Journalists Network.
  11. ↑ "Data journalism becomes a global field". Nieman Lab of Harvard University. 2019.
  12. ↑ "Actually, it's about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data". 2019.
  13. ↑ "Sigma Awards - New data journalism competition launched". 2020.
  14. ↑ Knight, Stef W (2020). "The relentless 2020 news cycle in one chart". Axios.
  15. ↑ Molla, Rani (2020). "What Google searches tell us about our coronavirus thoughts and fears". Vox.
  16. ↑ "The Data Journalism Handbook". data journalism handbook. 2021.
  17. ↑ Cairo, Alberto. "Announcing the Data Journalism Podcast" . Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  18. ↑ Simon Rogers, International Journalism Festival. Accessed 16 February 2023.
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