[ddj] A report on Data journalism

Wed Feb 1 10:49:58 UTC 2012

Dear Liliana,

here is a link to our report on data journalism which we did together 
with researchers Tanja Aitamurto and Pauliina Lehtonen last autumn for a 
Finnish research program Next Media.

The report is now available for all to from this link:

http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/nextmedia/Deliverables-2011/D3.2.1.2.B_Hyperlocal_Trends_In%20Data_Journalism.pdf

Please feel free to share the link on data-driven-journalism -list if 
you think that people might be interested in reading and maybe 
commenting it.

Here is the table of content:

Table of Contents
Executive Summary 
..................................................................................................... 
2
1 Introduction 
............................................................................................................. 
4
2 Overview: Public data and data journalism in some countries (Esa 
Sirkkunen) .... 5
2.1 The state of open, publicly produced data 
...................................................... 5
2.2. The state of data journalism 
............................................................................ 
6
2.3. Some new trends: trusted data hubs and automatic news 
.............................. 7
3 Data journalism strategies in the US and elsewhere (Tanja Aitamurto) 
.................. 9
3.1 Role of data journalism in news organisations 
................................................ 9
3.2 Sources of data 
............................................................................................. 
10
3.3. Workflow in data journalism 
.......................................................................... 
10
3.4. Best practices in the workflow 
....................................................................... 11
3.5. Data journalism teams, skills and tools 
......................................................... 12
3.6. Data hackathons, hack days and 
codeathons............................................... 13
3.7. Challenges in data journalism 
....................................................................... 13
3.8. Business models and the new data ecosystem 
............................................ 14
3.9. Vision: The future of data journalism 
............................................................. 16
4 Conclusions 
.......................................................................................................... 
17

The report has also a selection of data journalism cases, especially of  
local journalism done by Pauliina Lehtonen.

Best regards

Esa Sirkkunen
researcher
Research Centre COMET
University of Tampere
Finland

On 26.1.2012 12:24, Liliana Bounegru wrote:
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School of Communication, Media and Theatre (CMT)

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