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Look out for the new book: Data Journalism and the COVID-19 Disruption, which will come out in August 2024. routledge.com/Data-Journalis…

I am pleased to share my new publication. It argues audiences develop diagrammatic thinking while reading data visualisations. Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study - Jingrong Tong, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Interesting new journal article by Jingrong Tong setting out some of the frustrations many journalists feel with how FOI operates in practice - tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

UK journalists face growing battle for information access journalism.co.uk/news/uk-journa…

We authored the report along with City Journalism's Rana Arafat, Lindsey Blumell, Dr Glenda Cooper, lea hellmueller, Ayala Panievsky & Jane Singer; The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan's François Nel; RISJ's Craig T Robertson; & The University of Sheffield's Jingrong Tong. Pete Clifton has written the foreword.

I’m pleased to share that our report is now published. I used Python for the main analysis, which I found much more convenient than using either SPSS or Excel.

Press Gazette's coverage of my article: Growing Government Secrecy: How and Why Information Access has Become Increasingly Restricted in the UK pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/free…

Are journalists losing the battle against secrecy? A new commentary piece by Jingrong Tong is now available on the CFOM website, examining the erosion of access to information in the UK and the impact that this is having on journalism... Jingrong Tong cfom.org.uk/2025/04/30/are…

Three actions to improve UK journalists' information access: 1) reforming the FOI Act; 2) providing sufficient resources for handling FOI requests; and 3) changing UK governments' attitude toward news media and providing training for government departments and officials

Jingrong Tong, a senior lecturer in media and information studies at the University of Sheffield, said: “It is worrying that, in total, 43% of respondents considered the UK news media to have only ‘some’, ‘little’, or ‘no media freedom’ at all. ..." indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-jou…

New Publication: Judicial discourses about journalism in journalism-related judgments in the United Kingdom (UK) since Reynolds tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #judicialdiscourse#n-ram#python#legaltexts#mediafreedom Dr Gemma Horton

Machine learning techniques used to map the topics of FOI coverage in UK newspaper 2005-2023 (code also available) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this article, I compare LDA with other topic modeling approaches, including STM and CTM, and provide a detailed description of the entire research process. I hope this will assist others in conducting similar studies. lnkd.in/e3Vp_-Mz

Good to see this is published in an issue now. This article reveals the prominent role played by audiences' reflections and the influence cast by their levels of data literacy and familiarity with terminologies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

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