{"id":80786,"date":"2021-04-20T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/theoutlier\/?page_id=80678"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:04:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Outlier<\/strong> is an independent publication specialising in using data to create public service stories and visualisations. Our hope is that the work we do helps people to understand the world around them a little bit better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Outlier<\/strong> is published by <a href=\"https:\/\/mediahack.co.za\">Media Hack Collective (MHC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started <strong>MHC<\/strong> to experiment with data and visual storytelling and we&#8217;ve won a number of awards for our work, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wan-ifra.org\/events\/digital-media-awards-africa-2024\/?pagetype=special\">2024\u00a0WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Africa Best Data Visualisation<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/projects\/the-2024-ccnow-journalism-awards\/#extreme-weather\">2024 Covering Climate Now<\/a> awards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizcommunity.com\/Article\/196\/15\/244259.html\">2023\u00a0Vodacom Journalist of the Year Sustainability<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sikuvileawards.co.za\/2023\/06\/27\/all-the-standard-bank-sikuvile-journalism-awards-2023-winners\/\">2023\u00a0Sikuvile Feature Story<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vodacom.com\/news-article.php?articleID=7504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 winner Vodacom Journalist of the Year<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vodacom.com\/news-article.php?articleID=7504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 winner Vodacom Data Journalism<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vodacom.com\/news-article.php?articleID=4450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2017 winner Vodacom Online Journalism<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 shortlisted Global Editors Network Data Journalism Award \u2013 small newsroom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018 shortlisted Global Editors Network Data Journalism Award \u2013 people\u2019s choice and data journalism website of the year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/process\/pudding-awards-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 one of three winners of The Pudding Cup international award for the best visual and data-driven stories<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizcommunity.com\/Article\/196\/15\/177550.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 finalist Sikuvile Multiplatform Journalism award<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Outlier<\/strong> is a small team of data journalists and programmers. We work collaboratively on all of our projects and we experiment a lot as we try and find better ways to tell stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/laura-grant-64416a7\/\">Laura Grant<\/a><\/strong>, MHC co-founder and head of data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alastairotter\/\">Alastair Otter<\/a><\/strong>, MHC co-founder, head of tech<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gemma-ritchie-b1409b61\/\">Gemma Ritchie<\/a><\/strong>, data researcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gemma-gatticchi-31636a127\/\">Gemma Gatticchi<\/a><\/strong>, data researcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/annetaylorza\/\">Anne Taylor<\/a><\/strong>, community coordinator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ro-manoim-68228a304\/\">Ro Manoim<\/a><\/strong>, data analyst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outlier Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Outlier<\/strong> is fully funded by the work we do at <strong>Media Hack Collective<\/strong>. This allows us to keep <strong>The Outlier<\/strong><em> <\/em>focused on journalism while we are still able to produce work for paying clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in hiring us check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/mediahack.co.za\">Media Hack Collective<\/a> website or <a href=\"mailto:data@mediahack.co.za\">email<\/a> us: <a href=\"mailto:info@theoutlier.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@theoutlier.co.za<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"site":[],"class_list":["post-80786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80786"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89887,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80786\/revisions\/89887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=80786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}