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

Fri Nov 18 13:36:58 UTC 2011

This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

2011/11/18 Clément Renaud <clement.renaud at gmail.com>

> 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
>
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> +86 . 13917556012
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