Data-Driven Journalism Saves Local News
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This document discusses data-driven journalism and its potential to save struggling newsrooms. It defines data-driven journalism as using data to transform boring information into relevant stories. The document notes that while media businesses are struggling, data-driven journalism offers opportunities through tools like open data and data visualizations. It presents examples of data-driven stories and argues that newsrooms should embrace a data-aware approach, combining the skills of journalists, developers and designers. The document concludes by inviting the reader to join the community practicing this type of innovative journalism.
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- 1. DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM: SAVING NEWSROOMS, ONE AT A TIME Ljubljana - Naprey/Forward 2012 Mirko Lorenz
- 3. AN AMBASSADOR FROM A GROWING COMMUNITY OF DATA JOURNALISTS & HACKERS
- 4. WHAT IS #DDJ? HOW IS IT DONE? WHAT‘S IN IT FOR YOU?
- 5. WHAT THE *$‘+# IS DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM?
- 6. DEF: DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM = WORKFLOW PROCESS: FROM BORING TO RELEVANT
- 8. Charles Joseph Minard: Sankey-Diagram of Napoleons Campaign in 1812, published 1869
- 9. STORIES THAT HAVE DATA CAN BE POWERFUL
- 12. DATA-JOURNALISM COULD BE A „THE NEW CAMERA“
- 13. IMMER FRAGEN: IM VERGLEICH ZU WAS? (EDWARD TUFTE) Edward Tufte: To be truthful and revealing, data graphics must bear on the question at the heart of quantitative thinking: “Compared to what?, from: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- 15. Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful PUT NUMBERS IN CONTEXT, HELP THE READER UNDERSTAND
- 16. Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful
- 21. DATA-AWARE NEWSROOMS IS ALL WE NEED
- 22. DOWNSIDE - MEDIA BUSINESS UNDER SIEGE - QUANTITY OVER QUALITY - NEWSROOMS ARE CLOSING
- 24. „JOURNALISTS, WHERE DO YOU ADD VALUE?“ - JEFF JARVIS
- 25. UPSIDE - MORE DATA (LOTS OF...) - OPEN DATA - OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
- 26. DATA IN THE NEWSROOM: DATA STORY DATA INTERACTIVE DATA APPS
- 27. Quelle: New York Times
- 28. Quelle: New York Times
- 31. Roles in the Hacks/Hackers Newsroom Journalist DeveloperDesigner The Storyteller The Artist The Mechanic CC-BY: Mirko Lorenz, 2012
- 35. Quelle: Alan McLean, NYT//Amsterdam, 2010
- 37. FUTURE - FILTER BETTER - DIG DEEPER - ANSWER REAL QUESTIONS
- 38. JOIN US: #DDJ
- 39. DATA STORY ONAGLOWINGRECTANGLENEARYOU „Our city is now a better place“ -- Local Authority „It‘s a wonder how we could do without it“ -- Government DIGGING DEEPER AN OPEN DATA PRODUCTION „Surprisingly helpful“ -- User THE MOVIE?
- 40. THANK YOU.