Our acting data projects editor speaks to her predecessor, Simon Rogers, about how their work became integral to the newsroom
“It’s a new way of doing journalism which, like punk, anyone can do”. So said the Guardian’s data editor, Simon Rogers, in a TedX talk entitled “Data journalists are the new punk rockers” in 2012.
As far as career-changing sentiments go, it’s admittedly a strange one. But, looking back now in my role as the Guardian’s acting data projects editor, the idea that, with the right tools, anyone could be a data journalist was a real eye opener.