Episode 4 Bonus Story: Interview with Washington Post reporter Harry Stevens

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Have you read the Washington Post's story on flattening the curve? The one with dots bouncing off each other? That's the work of reporter Harry Stevens, one of the many journalists around the world who are working amazingly hard to give us the best information you can get about the world we are living in, despite the challenges of not being able to function as usual in a newsroom. Harry Stevens' work is also interesting in another way - his way of using data visualisation gives us a glimpse to how we should think about journalism today and in post-pandemic times. We live in a complex world and we have so much data floating around - his data stories were so inspiring for us journalism students to see how we could work with data, and with the people who are collecting them, to tell important and beautiful stories. We were so inspired that we just had to talk to him, and here's the result. Hope you'll be as inspired as we are.