Data Overload: Data, Journalism, & COVID-19

As people turn to news outlets for information, journalists -- and data journalists in particular -- are under pressure to make sense of droves of complicated information.Data Overload discusses the challenges journalists face obtaining, analyzing, and explaining data about the current pandemic.Todd Wallack, a Berkman Klein-Nieman Fellow and data journalist at the Boston Globe, is joined by Caroline Chen, who covers health care for ProPublica, and Armand Emamdjomeh, an assignment editor, graphics at the Washington Post.This event was co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation.