Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. So what can data journalists do to help audiences understand this complex issue and help evade audience apathy? Powering your climate stories with visualisation is one way to awaken emotion and inspire change. To delve further into this, we caught up with information designer Duncan Geere, data journalist Pei Ying Loh from The Kontinentalist, and visual journalist Rodolfo Almeida from Nucleo. They talk us through their climate stories and share their best practices for visualising climate solutions journalism.

Episode 54: Conversation with Duncan Geere, Pei Ying Loh and Rodolfo Almeida

This episode focuses on Black media startups and what it takes to make them sustainable. We sit down with data journalist SHERRELL DORSEY, who offers candid insights into her process after announcing that her technology news platform, The Plug, would shut down after seven years. Producer and reporter JOYCE PHILIPPE guides the conversation, and the pair discuss the importance of claiming your value, building community as a founder, funding solutions, and knowing when to pivot.

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Founder's Footnotes: Sherrell Dorsey on Running a Black Media Startup

In episode 2 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson speak with Simon Willison. Together they dive into the origins of Datasette, the evolution of data journalism, and the surprising ways open source tools shape global reporting. Simon also explains how LLM-based agents will redefine data cleaning, enrichment, and analysis. A must-listen for anyone building or scaling data teams.

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Data Renegades - Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison

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