The future of news is data and this is how you can be a part of the future

Columbia Journalism School now offers a whole program and even has a concentration in data journalism. That’s fine and we’re not here to hate on J-school, but for $66,348 a year less, the kings of mapping data, CartoDB, is having an all-day conference on how and why to incorporate data into journalism.
It’s called GeoJourNews 2016 and it’s happening Wednesday, June 8 at the New School.
“At the core of data-journalism, we at CartoDB are building a culture of geo-journalism underscored by our wonderful and active journalism community,” the company wrote. “Simultaneously, we strive to be at the cutting edge of data-journalism innovation with mapping and storytelling tools that take reporting to the next level.”
If you’re a journalist and you’re not familiar with CartoDB, get familiar, yo. The $23 million Bushwick startup has simplified mapmaking to the level where even a journalist can figure out how to do it and make it look cool.
Not for nothing, this could be a good event for organizations and companies interested in pitching stories to the press. On a recent maps story, I asked the person from the nonprofit I was interviewing why they’d decided to make their argument via maps. She replied that the reason was simply because in their experience the press picks up stories with maps way more often. We would expect that trend to continue into the future.

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