Journalists put in some of the longest hours of any profession. The Bureau of Labor Statistics might tell you that news people have a 40-hour workweek, but just ask any real reporter or editor you know, and they’ll tell you they work 50 to 60 hours a week.

That’s why these short-burst TED Talks are perfect for this hardworking group. They clock in at just 10 minutes, but they offer superb insights for active journalists.

Rogers is the editor of The Guardian’s Datablog. He said anyone today can work as a data journalist because it’s a legitimate form of creating valuable news without leaving your apartment. Instead of going out to interview sources and cover public events, data journalists log onto the internet and make a deep dive into the wealth of statistical data that is available from uncounted sources.

Sifting through this information enables the data journalist to compose stories that are relevant to the lives of specific demographic groups that will eagerly consume these kinds of stories.

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