Small Newsrooms, Big Prizes

An inspiring pair of Data Journalism Award winners.

Data journalism is a great equalizer. This modern method of investigation can be leveraged by smaller organizations to deliver stories that no so long ago, would have been too expensive and out of reach.

At this year’s Data Journalism Awards at the Global Editors Network (GEN) summit in Vienna, the winners of “Small Newsrooms” prizes were websites in Peru and Spain. Convoca, based in Lima, won for News Data App of the Year, while Spain’s Fundación Civio claimed the Investigation of the Year prize.

In the aftermath of these wins, Sabine Louët, editor of the journal EuroScientist, chatted with the principal authors of those “Small Newsrooms” projects. Convoca’s

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