News Vizify plans tools for freelancers to visually showcase work The platform, which produces profile visuals, could be used by journalists to showcase their experience and work alongside social media presence By Rachel McAthy • 4 min read
Credit: Visual.ly infographic on 'big data' News Visual.ly: New infographics tool to launch 'later this year' Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly, a platform for creating, exploring and sharing infographics, discusses plans to roll out additional data visualisation creation options later this year By Sarah Marshall • 4 min read
News Guardian wins Data Journalism Award for riot interactive Jury member Peter Barron of Google described the Guardian's interactive as a 'compelling piece of data journalism' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Digital magazine OWNI opens second funding round after award win Site aims to raise between €1m and €1.5m from both French and international backers following ONA Award By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News ONA Awards recognise innovation in investigative and data journalism French site OWNI.fr wins a general excellence award following its work on the WikiLeaks Iraq war logs, while MSNBC.com takes home the grand prize By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Media140 event to look at how journalists can make the most of data King's Cross event will feature journalist and designer David McCandless and the Guardian's news editor for data Simon Rogers By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Podcast: Data journalism - what's driving the trend? We talk to Guardian news editor for data Simon Rogers, Times editorial developer Julian Burgess and regional newspaper journalist Mary Hamilton about the trend for data visualisation By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News US Hacks/Hackers network forms London branch The London branch, which claims to be the first international chapter of Hacks/Hackers, will incorporate the Ruby in the Pub meetings By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
