And the core skills of working with numbers and telling stories in the public interest are fundamental to all newsroom work. Still, it is important for all team members to have some familiarity with what the others are doing. In most moderate to large newsrooms, some data tasks are divided among desks and departments, with reporters, editors, designers and coders working in teams. The skills required to be a successful data journalist are many, ranging from numeracy and spreadsheet fluency to being able to create visualizations and interpret and perform statistical analyses.
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