I think the idea of having some examples of relevant, high quality, punchy data journalism is great. Such examples are few and far between. Unfortunately, what I clicked on looked, to me, pretty disappointing (journalism, not software). Example: looking at their top link
It took me a while to figure out what exactly are they showing: the plots/colors look good, the software works cool, but it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what this is a plot of (area, at population density at your chosen location, needed to house X million people).
Maybe all they need are better titles / verbal descriptions, but as is it does not cut it for me as best practices of data journalism (interesting, correct, clear, grabs me by the balls). My 2c.
Perhaps you can help in discerning what is and isn't journalism since they stated that contributors are welcome. That first link turned me off as well.
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2013/syrias-refugees/
It took me a while to figure out what exactly are they showing: the plots/colors look good, the software works cool, but it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what this is a plot of (area, at population density at your chosen location, needed to house X million people).
Maybe all they need are better titles / verbal descriptions, but as is it does not cut it for me as best practices of data journalism (interesting, correct, clear, grabs me by the balls). My 2c.