[ddj] Anyone know successful examples of business models for data journalism?

Thu Nov 17 20:09:32 UTC 2011

Hi,

I'm new to the list and certainly don't regard anything I do as remotely
like journalism.  So why did I join the list?  Well I work for a data
provider, you can see the, rather dull, website I manage here
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs  This site was created to share data
with other climate researchers around the world,  which it actually does
quite well.  I also get requests for data from private individuals,
students, but probably not from journalists - it's less useful for this but
I have plans to improve it with interactive maps and the like.

Seeing this message did make me re-evaluate what my colleagues and I do,
 and certainly our press releases are often "data driven",  for example -

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/august-severe-weather

So I suppose it would be fair to say that in an organisation like ours
there are individuals who are competent in a variant of data driven
journalism,  albeit supported by very many technical experts in science,
computing and statistics and more importantly having direct access to data
- no searching, scraping, etc.

Hope this helps the discussion in some way.

Regards,    Michael Saunby
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