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By Catalina Oblu March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

How are local newspapers making money?

Local newspapers have suffered a turbulent decade with dozens folding every year. Hyperlocal sites are filling this news void, but how are they making money?  More than 200 local papers shut down across the UK between 2005 and 2018, according to a report. This collapse in local accountability has resulted

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A data visualisation showing languages broken down into groups, with each list of languages emerging from a hand-drawn mouth
By Maud Rowell March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

An idiot’s guide to data journalism

You don’t need to be a maths whiz to be a data journalist, nor do you have to be a tech wizard. Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and it isn’t always numbers So, you’re an idiot when it comes to data journalism. Perhaps you didn’t enter the media

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The front cover of The Sunday Times
By Nora Popova March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

A coffee with: Sunday Times Style assistant editor Fleur Britten

Creator of the magazine’s ‘What She Said’ column and author of five books on her path to success and seizing opportunities.  When Fleur Britten was six years old, her grandma wrote in her diary that she believed her granddaughter would be a writer one day. Fast forward 39 years, and Britten

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