📚 A new book on visual journalism features a chapter by our MA Data Journalism course leader Paul Bradshaw The chapter covers 'Data, data visualization, and interactives within news' routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

GenAI tools can be a useful tool for data analysis — but results depend heavily on the context you provide, and the code needs checking. My latest blog post explores how #AI performs when asked to analyse data. onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/09/16/i-t…

Last week I wrote about how AI performed on data analysis tasks — now here are some tips for using #AI for analysis (and addressing the risks of doing so) onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/09/22/how…

👀Look out for Birmingham City University MA Data Journalism course leader Paul Bradshaw in the latest Reuters Institute newsletter as one of the experts interviewed about how #AI is transforming journalism education reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/plagiaris…

🤖 Our MA course leader Paul Bradshaw was interviewed by Reuters Institute on how AI is transforming journalism education reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/plagiaris…

👮🏼‍♂️ 6 months ago a police unit said they would stop revealing the identities of #FOI requesters after an investigation by Alex Homer 🕵️‍♂️ Then Alex followed up to check if they did... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🇩🇪🇨🇭🇦🇹 Die umgekehrte Pyramide des Datenjournalismus Teil 2 - auf Deutsch! onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/11/03/6-w…

🤔 Is it fair to suggest that using AI "challenges" editorial independence? I tried to tease out the myths from the facts, and what people say vs what they mean onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/11/14/ai-…

🤩 BCU MA journalism alumnus Federico Acosta Rainis chaired a panel at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference over the weekend. The panel was on Uncovering Human Trafficking at Sea with Katie McQue, Abdus Somad and Amruta Byatnal pulitzercenter.org/blog/pulitzer-… #bcujournos #GIJC25

"It is now straightforward for AIs to bypass the defences the [survey] industry has built up to filter out bots" The latest AI Shift newsletter is a must-read: ep.ft.com/permalink/emai… Or go straight to the research: pewresearch.org/short-reads/20… 404media.co/a-researcher-m…

🎉New post! Why 'role play prompting' is a low risk, high opportunity application for #AI — and how to use 4️⃣ particularly useful techniques for journalists: 🐥 Rubber ducking 🦉 Mentoring 😈 Red teaming 👂🏽 Audience personas onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/11/28/4-w…

Now published on Medium: 7 prompt design techniques for generative AI every journalist should know paulbradshaw.medium.com/7-prompt-desig…

😱 How do you use AI without becoming less creative, more stupid, or deskilled? That's what I cover in my latest blog post — on “journey prompts” versus “destination prompts” onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/12/02/jou…

Check out the latest story in El Diario by @myBCU MA journalism alumna Victòria Oliveres on segregation of immigrants in Spain eldiario.es/desalambre/ava…

Now on Medium: 7️⃣ prompt design techniques for generative AI every journalist should know medium.com/p/7-prompt-des…

🕵️‍♀️ My post on how to find data if your country doesn't publish any is now on Medium paulbradshaw.medium.com/how-do-i-get-d… #ddj

🕵️‍♀️ My post on how to find data if your country doesn't publish any is now on Medium. Key tips: 🌍 Look for data on your country published by other countries 🤖 Scrape data 👩🏽‍💻 Compile data 📜 Turn text documents into data 🫙 Report on the lack of data paulbradshaw.medium.com/how-do-i-get-d… #ddj

If you've used my 7 angles of data journalism stories you might have wondered about the similarity between ranking and variation stories. I've now written a post on the difference between them: onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/12/08/tel…

The explainer isn't dead — it just needs a reason to live. onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/12/08/no-… (A response to Marie Gilot's Nieman Lab prediction for 2026)

Latest #ddj by the BBC Shared Data Unit: 💦 ~1 in 11 flood defences below condition ⚠️ 'High consequence' defences 45% x likely to be failing if maintained by a third-party 🌊Even working defences built 5 yrs ago are already being overtopped by floods bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…