In just a few years' time, it will be tricky to distinguish a data journalist from a more traditional one, predicts John Burn-Murdoch, and it's an evolution he's witnessing from the inside.

A data journalist with the Financial Times in London and a lecturer in City University there, Burn-Murdoch got his start in journalism in a fairly common way: he began working for his university's newspaper and, after graduation, landed a gig at The Guardian. This was around the time of the riots in London in 2011, and he found himself embedded with their data team