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

Thu Nov 17 20:16:32 UTC 2011

Hey Michael, 

I'd also encourage you to join the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting's mailing list as well (see: http://www.ire.org/membership/subscribe/nicar-l.html ).  There are a lot of investigative reporters with decades of experience FOIAing information, as well as news apps developers who deal with pulling together data sets to visualize or otherwise inform the public.

Liliana, i'd also add that Investigative Reporters and Editors does run a service where we will do data analysis for journalism organizations.  So, although we are a non-profit organization, we do sell our data services and the data sets we collect (and have done so for quite a number of years, although i'd have to ask exactly how many years). 

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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Saunby wrote:

> 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 - 
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> http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/august-severe-weather
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> 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. 
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> Hope this helps the discussion in some way.
> 
> Regards,    Michael Saunby
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