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

Fri Nov 18 10:42:41 UTC 2011

Hi Michael, hi Ted,

Michael, I'm glad you joined the list. One thing we're trying to think of
is how to bring NGOs, research institutes that produce data and journalists
closer together. There are definitely interesting models to keep an eye on
and learn from outside the journalism field.

Ted: Thanks for mentioning the IRE. There would be a lot to learn if we
brought the NICAR and the data journalism communities closer together.
Might you be able to put me in touch with someone from IRE would be willing
to share a few insights from their experience with selling data services to
news organisations?

Best,

Liliana
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On 17 November 2011 21:16, Ted Han <ted at knowtheory.net> wrote:

>  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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