Tom Calver
Tom Calver is the Data Editor of The Times and The Sunday Times. He manages a ten-person team of data reporters and developers, and writes a weekly data column called Go Figure. He was named Data Journalist of the year by the Wincott Foundation in 2023, and was on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list in 2020. He started his career at Which? and BBC News, before moving to The Times in 2019.
Summer Conference Event
— Discussion Talk
More Than Just a Number: How do the UK’s data desks operate?
Data journalism has been around for a very long time...but the existence of dedicated data desks in UK newsrooms is a relatively new concept. In fact when the CIJ started teaching data journalism - then called Computer Assisted Reporting - in the early 2000s, very few people were interested.
