The Economist’s data team is looking for excellent research to cover in their Graphic Detail section, both online and in their print edition. One of their data-journalism team’s goals is to keep our global audience apprised of exciting and important new studies. If that sounds like your work, please send it to them.
They are principally interested in papers that are “new” in the sense of being:
- just published or forthcoming in a peer-reviewed journal of good standing;
- conditionally accepted or under review in a peer-reviewed journal of good standing, or;
- recently written/extensively revised working papers of excellent quality.
They welcome papers on any topic. However, they are particularly interested in those that have implications for public policy or private industry; use novel methodology; rely on datasets that are new or have not previously been analysed; or relate to topics in the news or likely to be newsworthy soon. They also place a premium on research that can be illustrated graphically (with charts, maps or diagrams), or data that lend themselves to a strong visual treatment.
They will only consider submissions whose conclusions they can verify, either via a replication package or by providing underlying data alongside article text.
If they decide to cover your paper, one of our data journalists will review its findings and summarise, contextualise and analyse them in an article. Concurrently, one of our visual data journalists will design images (usually in the form of charts) to accompany it. On your part, they might require some clarification of minor points, a robustness check or two, an interview, or, frequently, just being available via email to answer questions.
To submit, please use the following link: Submission form
More information here.