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

Fri Nov 18 23:24:54 UTC 2011

@liliana
i will write something on the gDoc about data journalism business models -
about owni first
i'll do my best to do it within 2 weeks. Is that ok for you ?
for more about data journalism in China, we could discuss on skype at  :
 clemsos
talk soon !

@mlaucelli
Glad you like it ! hopefully i will be able to share more insights like
that in the book

2011/11/18 marco Laucelli <mlaucelli at gmail.com>

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