Opening data and Doing Data Journalism in a country without FOIA

After another year of training and consistency in the data project of LA NACION, many journaslists and oportunities of new projects appeared. We continued reporting from datasets built from scratch and then transformed, opened and shared by our team in print, online and social media. We gave our third internal training program of Data Journalism, in which we take 15 journalists for 5 full days mixing them with the data and interactive teams, and we repeated our second two days Datafest open to the data mining, hacktivism and journalism community in Argentina.

 

So some of our projects presented below, are the result of innovation by opening, by sharing, by loving to learn and by something so simple as learning to work in teams.

 Argentina´s Official advertising funds distribution 2009 – 2013: Friends, politicians and a stylist.

– La Plata major flooding tragedy: from 51 to 78 officially dead

– Public officials salaries and assets for reporting and accountability

 – VozData: collaborating to free data from PDFs – The Senate Expenses part II 

– Monitoring the new Media Law in Argentina 2009-2013. 94% created were state media, no plural voices as promised so far

 2013 Legislative Elections in Argentina

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