Dear all, The European Data & Computational Journalism Conference will be in Spain this summer. Here I am sharing the call for submissions with you. If you have any questions please feel free to drop me (or hello@datajconf.com) a line. Best, Bahareh ===== Call for academic papers, industry talks and hands-on workshops ===== *The 3rd European Data & Computational Journalism Conference* 1 - 2 July 2019 Malaga, Spain Submission Deadline: 4th April 2019 datajconf.com/ | @datajconf <https://twitter.com/datajconf> ============================================================ The 3rd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism. Held in Malaga, Spain, the conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It will be followed by a day of workshops and tutorials. We invite the submission of both academic research-focused and industry-focused talks for the conference. Proposals for hands-on workshops and tutorials are also welcome. Please see the conference submission page <http://datajconf.com/#submissions> for more details. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Application of data and computational journalism within newsrooms - Data driven investigations - Data storytelling - Open data for journalism, storytelling, transparency and accountability - Algorithms, transparency and accountability - Automated, robot and chat bot journalism - Newsroom software and tools - ‘Post-fact’ journalism and the impact of data - User experience and interactivity - Data and Computational Journalism education - Post-desktop news provision/interaction - Data mining news sources - Visualisation and presentation - Bias, ethics, transparency and truth in Data Journalism - Newsroom challenges with respect to data journalism, best practices, success and failure stories Our confirmed keynote speakers are Daniele Grasso <https://twitter.com/danielegrasso> from El Pais, and Meredith Broussard <https://twitter.com/merbroussard> from NYU. ---------------------------- Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi Assistant Professor Postgraduate Director Director of Data Journalism CPD School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Co-chair of the European Data & Computational Journalism Conference Board member, Ireland Open Data Governance Board *What's new:* CfP: The Third European Data & Computational Journalism Conference datajconf.com New Journal special issue: Social Media Mining for Journalism <https://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/oir/43/1> Paper: 3Ws of Data Journalism Education bit.ly/3WsDDJEdu Journal (in Spanish): Ibero-American Data Journalism: development, contestation and social change *bit.ly/2mGmdVM <http://bit.ly/2mGmdVM>* TEDx talk: How Data Journalism is changing the Newsroom *bit.ly/2C711xS <http://bit.ly/2C711xS>*