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

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.