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A bronze plaque with raised letters. It displays "The Journalist's Creed" in full. It is hanging on a wall, shot at an angle, with sunlight and sharp shadows falling across the wall and the plaque.

Ten years ago today I was at an IRE boot camp at Mizzou in Columbia, Mo. learning how to be a data journalist. The Journalist’s Creed was written by Walter Williams, founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, in 1914.