Proceedings of the 3rd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference

The 3rd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism.Held in Malaga, Spain, the conference presented a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It was followed by a day of workshops and tutorials. Submissions of both academic research-focused and industry-focused talks for the conference, on the subjects of journalism, data journalism, and information, data, social and computer sciences were invited for the conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Application of data and computational journalism within newsrooms • Data driven investigations • Data storytelling • Open data for journalism, storytelling, transparency and accountability • Algorithms, transparency and accountability • Automated, robot and chatbot journalism • Newsroom software and tools • ‘Post-fact’ journalism and the impact of data • User experience and interactivity • Data and Computational Journalism education • Post-desktop news provision/interaction • Data mining news sources • Visualisation and presentation • News games and gamification of News • Bias, ethics, transparency and truth in Data Journalism • Newsroom challenges with respect to data journalism, best practices, success and failure storiesCollected within these proceedings are the academic abstracts presented at the conference.