Data Fixers

Data Fixers is a data-driven journalism and consulting project created at the The Brown Institute for Media Innovation – a joint initiative between Columbia University and Stanford University. This project received a Magic Grant to find data and public records to support investigative journalism in Brazil and is coordinated by journalist Luiz Fernando Toledo (Master of Science in Data Journalism 2022). Data Fixers was awarded twice in 2023 by the Open Knowledge Foundation (Brazil) as the best Brazilian open data project and also as part of the best investigative project of the year (Amazon Underworld)