How close is the nearest school? Mapping distances across Greece
How far away is the nearest school? We used secondary schools across rural Greece as a case study to map distances to an essential service and demonstrate how isodistances can be calculated and visualized on a map.
Journalism in Mexico: Anatomy of a silence
Amid another increase in the murders of Mexican journalists in the summer of 2026, reporters across Mexico speak to iMEdD about navigating pressure from drug cartels and public officials, persistent impunity and, in some parts of the country, “zones of silence.”
I slowed down – and my journalism changed
Slowing down journalism means creating space to listen, reflect and report with greater care, context and resilience.
Accessibility isn’t optional
For many people, avoiding the news is a choice. For millions of people with disabilities, it can be the result of something else: a news industry that was not designed with accessibility in mind.
The cockroaches’ reckoning: How Gen Z protests exposed India’s ‘lapdog media’ and ushered in a new wave of reporters
As young demonstrators turned their backs on TV anchors, a new generation of phone-and-mic journalists covered a movement that shook the establishment
Turning investigations into games
Journalism is searching for new ways to hold readers’ attention. Can games built from investigative reporting keep audiences engaged?
Opening the “black box” with explainable AI – a conversation with Menna El-Assady
With artificial intelligence tools having overwhelmed work routines and even our daily lives, Menna El-Assady, computer science professor and head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation Lab of ETH Zurich, explains what we should avoid, what are the real questions and how we can understand what really happens inside AI models.
Retrieving and processing OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is a "treasure trove" hiding in plain sight for any journalistic mapping project. We present how one can retrieve and process OpenStreetMap data using Python or QGIS.