Twelve Tips for Getting Started With Data Journalism by Nils Mulvad and Helena Bengtsson.
No mention of Python or R, no instructions for No-SQL or SQL databases, no data cleaning exercises, and yet probably the best advice you will find for data journalism (or data science for that matter).
The essential insight of these twelve tips are that the meaning of the data, which implies answering “why does this matter?,” is the task of data journalism/science.
Anyone with sufficient help can generate graphs, produce charts, apply statistical techniques to data sets, but if it is all just technique, no one is going to care.
The twelve tips offered here are good for a daily read with your morning coffee!
Highly recommended!