John Walton
John Walton is a Data Journalism Editor on the BBC’s Visual Journalism team.
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.