Opening Up: Anastasia Valeeva (right) at a data journalism course at the American University of Central Asia.
Anastasia Valeeva, a Russian-born investigative journalist who specializes in open data, has been exploring the state of data journalism in her home country. For a paper at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, “Open Data in a Closed Political System: Investigative Open Data Journalism in Russia,” Valeeva interviewed 13 journalists and open data researchers from Russia and the UK, and analyzed 30 data investigations on topics ranging from corruption in procurement to the Panama Papers.
Valeeva began her career at …read more