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

Wed Nov 23 14:42:16 UTC 2011

Hi everybody,
I wanted to share with you this paper from the IBM Institute of Busines
Value that analyzes the business models that could be promoted by a a
government with OpenData initiatives.

I really think this is useful and complete and I hope you find it useful.
Regards,
Marco.

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03451usen/GBE03451USEN.PDF

@mlaucelli

2011/11/19 Clément Renaud <clement.renaud at gmail.com>

> @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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