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

Fri Nov 18 10:11:03 UTC 2011

Hi everybody,

I am Clement Renaud, a french journalist / coder / researcher based in
Shanghai, China.
I am now leading a startup focused on datavis and open licences which
will host several research groups around the idea of Sharism
http://lab.sharism.org
We are based in China and intend to spread the idea of datajournalism
there, through education (online courses, workshops...) and services.

I have been recently investigating several business models of datavis
and datajournalism startups. I will be glad to contribute to the book
in providing some research and writing regarding to this topic

You can read a short post I wrote about OWNI (French
media+datajournalism) business model on my blog a few weeks before.
http://www.clemsos.com/blog/2011/09/about-owni-and-its-business-model/

Tell me how I should proceed to contribute

Have a good day
-- 
Clément Renaud

web editor, Shanghai
@clemsos
+33 . 0643345655
+86 . 13917556012
www.clemsos.com

2011/11/17, Ted Han <ted at knowtheory.net>:
> 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).
>
> --
> Ted Han
> @knowtheory (http://twitter.com/knowtheory)
> DocumentCloud
> Investigative Reporters & Editors
>
>
> 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 -
>>
>> 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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-- 
Clément Renaud

web editor, Shanghai
@clemsos
+33 . 0643345655
+86 . 13917556012
www.clemsos.com