The rise of the new reporter - Dan James via 12 Predictions For 2012 -- NESTA
NESTA put together 12 predictions for 2012, and one was the rise of the new reporter: the data journalist.
Dan James via 12 Predictions For 2012 — NESTA
The task of the data journalist is to filter and interpret these huge datasets to make a compelling story. And this is where it gets interesting, because data journalism gives us a new way to make facts compelling. Traditional investigative journalism has tended to drill down - to unearth hidden truths in current events. By contrast, data journalism often works in the other direction by aggregating small details to create a bigger picture. This role has previously been played by expert inquiries and academic studies, once public interest has died down. But data are increasingly available in (almost) real time, and social media can be used to harness collective intelligence, for example to build up a picture of contextual factors implicated in this summer’s riots. Such ‘emergent truths’ may be less exciting than a killer scoop, but they make up for it in relevance to the reader and local detail. Data journalism can empower readers to break stories down to a hyper-local level, allowing readers to zoom in to their constituency or neighbourhood to find out what would happen under AV system, filtering by personal circumstances, or search for cases of interest.
Future news reporting…
The rise of the new reporter - Dan James via 12 Predictions For 2012 -- NESTA
NESTA put together 12 predictions for 2012, and one was the rise of the new reporter: the data journalist.
Dan James via 12 Predictions For 2012 — NESTA
The task of the data journalist is to filter and interpret these huge datasets to make a compelling story. And this is where it gets interesting, because data journalism gives us a new way to make facts compelling. Traditional investigative journalism has tended to drill down - to unearth hidden truths in current events. By contrast, data journalism often works in the other direction by aggregating small details to create a bigger picture. This role has previously been played by expert inquiries and academic studies, once public interest has died down. But data are increasingly available in (almost) real time, and social media can be used to harness collective intelligence, for example to build up a picture of contextual factors implicated in this summer’s riots. Such ‘emergent truths’ may be less exciting than a killer scoop, but they make up for it in relevance to the reader and local detail. Data journalism can empower readers to break stories down to a hyper-local level, allowing readers to zoom in to their constituency or neighbourhood to find out what would happen under AV system, filtering by personal circumstances, or search for cases of interest.
Future news reporting…
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