#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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Is There a Space for Data Journalism?
OID could be a new site that is just really kind of squarely focused on which big picture stories in the world do actually seem like the most important and can we communicate them in a data oriented way. The selection of subjects on 538 doesn't look like what we want to achieve they are very focused on short-term stuff whether it's political campaigns or maybe more trivial things like sports. I have hope that maybe the way to go about doing this is not so much standing up on your website but taking a newspaper that has strong legitimacy and somewhat stable funding already and creating a team within that that has the power and freedom to do that kind of analysis.
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