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1 week ago | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
It’s the beginning of a new era for the Catholic Church. A little less than a month after being discharged from the hospital — and after spending Easter Sunday with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square — Pope Francis died at the age of 88. El País has produced a detailed special on the composition of the conclave and the process of choosing the next pontiff.
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3 weeks ago | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
Donald Trump’s stop-start trade war continues. The Financial Times explains how China’s record trade surplus helped trigger the tariff war with the US president, and The Washington Post provides a live tracker of all the tariffs that Trump has enacted, threatened, and canceled.
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1 month ago | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
Sometimes it seems like it was just yesterday that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. But it was five years ago — March 11, 2024 — that we started to quarantine ourselves and adopt extra protection and hygiene measures. To mark the date, The New York Times shows in 30 graphs how the US has changed in the meantime.
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2 months ago | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
Data journalists have been busy in recent weeks with US President Donald Trump’s many controversies, whether it’s his trade war, sweeping USAID cuts, or his belligerent stances on the Russia-Ukraine war. In the run-up and after, Germany’s federal election also dominated the work of data journalism teams around the world, with polls and election forecasts, live trackers, and overviews of the voting results.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House was marked by a flurry of executive orders, from pardons for those involved in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol to withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords. But some of his toughest — and most controversial — policies relate to migration and, upon taking office, Trump declared a national emergency on the US border with Mexico and unveiled plans to ramp up the forced removal of immigrants.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
Though we are only two weeks in, 2025 has already been eventful. From war and conflict to environmental disasters, there have already been a number of notable events for data reporters to delve into. But the devastating wildfires that have been ravaging southern California have received the most attention from data teams around the world — so much so that we selected not one, but two stories about the environmental disaster that is already the largest on record in the region.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
In 2024, there was no shortage of data journalism projects that produced captivating storytelling on a diverse range of topics and events. But with around half of the world’s population voting this year, it’s not surprising that elections were the topic covered most in our columns, appearing in 30 of the more than 200 pieces we selected from more than 80 different media outlets.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
Unsurprisingly, the US elections dominated the news and data journalism over the past two weeks, with print and online media awash in red and blue maps, explanations of the electoral college system and swing states, and recaps of the results. Naturally, several data projects related to the election feature in our final, regular data journalism column of 2024.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
In a year in which nearly half of the world’s population has gone to the polls, we’ve finally reached the eve of the most talked-about election: the US presidential race. With less than a week to go, the outcome is still highly uncertain: candidates Donald Trump and Kamala have been in a dead heat in the polls for weeks. The Financial Times has a comprehensive guide to the election, while The Washington Post explains in detail the seven battleground states that could influence the vote.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
gijn.org | Ana Beatriz Assam
The power of nature and climate change have been common themes in data journalism over the past few weeks. Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across six US states, more than 1,000 people were killed in African countries due to historic rainfall, and at least 17 people died in Central European countries affected by Storm Boris.
