As creators of visual content, interactive storytelling and a variety of numerical representations, data journalists creatively deliver their message in more complicated ways than you can think of. If you are familiar with data journalism and possess an interest in the subject, familiarising yourself with the work of other journalists in the field does no harm. You could be inspired or even find opportunities you didn’t know existed.
On a platform as crowded as Twitter, knowing who to follow is usually based on interests – it is a valuable platform of information where journalists gather and share their news, but with so many accounts and a constantly updating home-page, it’s easy to lose track of people that you’re interested in. We updated our 5 person list from 2018 on data journalists you need to follow and extended it for those interested in data or digital journalism:
Andy Kirk [@visualisingdata]
Freelance data visualisation specialist and author of Visualising Data.
Posts include: Data visualisations, important data on stories covered in the news and shared tweets containing other relevant and timely visualisations.
Gurman Bhatia [@GurmanBhatia]
Data journalist at Reuters Graphics.
Posts include: Interactive visualisations created and shared often as well as a great amount of global content.
Nadieh Bremer [@NadiehBremer]
Astronomer and freelance data visualisation designer.
Posts include: Exceptional self-created data visualisations and resources useful to new journalists in the field of data.
Sam Joiner [@samjoiner]
Head of data and digital storytelling at The Times and The Sunday Times.
Posts include: A variety of data visualisations for storytelling, interactives created and jobs and resources in digital and data journalism.
Josh Holder [@Josh_H]
Visual journalist and graphics editor at New York Times.
Posts include: Visual maps and charts, timely news interactives from other organisations and recently advertised jobs in the field of data journalism.
Mona Chalabi [@MonaChalabi]
Data journalist at The Guardian.
Posts include: A variety of original visualisations in different graphical forms and timely data news stories with appropriate visualisations.
Giorgia Lupi [@giorgialupi]
Information designer and former co-founder of data-driven research and design firm Accurat.
Posts include: Retweeting and sharing an incredible amount of useful resources and data-driving fashion content.
Gregor Aisch [@driven_by_data]
CTO at Datawrapper.
Posts include: News updates on data and corporations, data visualisations, step-by-steps and new features on Datawrapper.
Zete Hausfather [@hausfath]
Climate scientist focusing on temperature data.
Posts include: News about the Earth’s climate, environmental data visualisations and comparisons of emissions.
Martin Stabe [@martinstabe]
Data editor at the Financial Times.
Posts include: Data innovation news, the future of data journalism, political news and interactive and data visualisations.
Sarah Newey [@sneweyy]
Data journalist and reporter on global health security at the Telegraph.
Posts include: Global health news and statistics, data visualisations on current events and analyses of developing nations and change.
Eva Constantaras [@EvaConstantaras]
Data journalist and investigative trainer.
Posts include: Big data news, data projects, job opportunities, public interest and accountability that stems from data journalism.
