How technology is powering election coverage
Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 18.01 EST This is part two of a series of three blogposts about the first year of the new Investigations & Reporting team, a small group of software developers embedded in the Guardian newsroom. Read about our work on environmental reporting here and Covid-19 investigations here. The 2019 UK general election campaign was a big test of our ability to work with journalists to an editorial deadline. We used all the knowledge and skills we had gained while working on the Polluters Project. The Guardian’s editors decided that tracking digital campaigns would be a ...