Mona Chalabi

Mona Chalabi is a British data journalist. She has studied at the University of Edinburgh.[1]

After working for the FiveThirtyEight, Bank of England, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, she currently works for The Guardian.[2][3] She is considered one of the most influential people in the young field of data journalism.[4][5] She sees the importance of data journalism in the fact that politicians cannot get away with false claims anymore.[6] Her work covers many diverse interests and she has written about racial dating preferences[7] to research on Wikipedia.[8] In an article for the New York Times she has argued for a more empirical approach to economics.[9] On October 23, 2015 she announced on her "Dear Mona" column that she was leaving fivethirtyeight.[10]

As of September 2015 she is working on a documentary on racism for the BBC.[11] For NPR she produces the Number of the Week.[12]

References

  1. ↑ University of Edinburgh Interview with Mona Chalabi, retrieved 2015-09-27
  2. ↑ "Mona Chalabi". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  3. ↑ "Mona Chalabi". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  4. ↑ "Datenjournalismus: "Die ganze Welt besteht aus Daten"". Futurezone (German technology website). Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  5. ↑ "A non-comprehensive list of awesome female data people on Twitter | Simply Statistics". Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  6. ↑ "Neue Medien: "Die ganze Welt besteht aus Daten"". Kurier (Austrian daily). Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  7. ↑ Does having a racial preference when dating make us racist? Mona Chalabi | Youtube – The Guardian channel, retrieved 2015-09-27
  8. ↑ Chalabi, Mona. "The 100 Most-Edited Wikipedia Articles". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  9. ↑ "Rethinking How We Teach Economics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  10. ↑ Dear Mona - FiveThirtyeight http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/dear-reader-goodbye/
  11. ↑ "BBC - BBC Three announces seasons on race and gender, The Fear and Murder Games - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  12. ↑ "NPR Search : NPR". www.npr.org. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
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