I have just stumbled on this lovely video on data driven journalism via O’Reilly Radar.

‘Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?’

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

You can watch the full version with annotations and links at datajournalism.stanford.edu.