How data-driven journalism illuminates patterns of injustice | Alison Killing

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Data-driven journalism can help pinpoint truths and expose corruption -- even without physical access to where it's happening. Sharing the remarkable discovery of massive alleged detention camps in Xinjiang, China, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and TED Fellow Alison Killing calls for more reliable open-source data, like satellite and social media imagery, to shine a light on the world's darkest places.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.7	Journalism has come a long way from the old school reporting tactics of saying, the Watergate
0:12.6	reporters Woodward and Bernstein.
0:15.2	Journalist and architect Alison Killing is an example.
0:18.4	In her eye-opening talk from Ted 2022, she shares how using the tech tools of mapping,
0:24.2	satellite imagery and data helped shine a light on a pattern of injustice, and the possibilities
0:30.2	data journalism holds for more muck-raking.
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