Proceedings of the 2nd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference

The 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 Cardiff, Wales, UK, the 2nd edition of the conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It will be followed by a day of workshops.Submissions of academic research focused talks, industry talks, as well as hands-on workshops were invited for the conference, on the subjects of journalism, data journalism, computational journalism, and information, data, social and computer science. 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 •Bias, ethics, transparency and truth in Data Journalism •Newsroom challenges with respect to data journalism, best practices, success and failure stories. Collected within these proceedings are the academic abstracts presented at the conference. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the programme committee for their hard work reviewing submissions and helping us to come up with the fantastic line-up of talks for this year.