10 REASONS

JOURNALISM+

OPEN DATA (& APPROACHES) =

GREAT

THE OPEN KNOWLEDGE

FOUNDATION

FROMhello

WE BELIEVE IN THE

POWEROFOpen.

THE OPEN DEFINITIONdefines ‘openness’ as the FREEDOM to use, re-use and redistribute without technicalor legal restrictions.

opendefinition.org

what isDATA

JOURNALISM?(and why does OKFN care? )

THERE IS NO SUCH THING

AS DATA JOURNALISMImage: Plenty R. (Via Flickr)

• tool: ddj handbook (lucy’s slide)

A RESOURCE FORjournalists.

Treating data as a sourceNew ways of getting dataUnderstanding & working with dataNew ways of delivering data

10 REASONS

JOURNOS+

OPEN DATA (& APPROACHES) =

GREAT

1. It’s already out there

2. It’s not always good - (you can improve it)

3. Sometimes you are best placed to put it together (i.e. not governments)

4. OR No-one has ever collected it before...

FOI Requests

Scraping

Portals

5. You’ve got the tools (and they work)

6. Sometimes open resources are actually better

7. Those releasing the data don’t know what you’ll do with it

8. The data needs YOU

9. Your readers need you

Journalist Coder/DataGeek

Othere.g. academic

DataJournalist

10. Someone has probably already solved your problem

what’s NEW...?

Crowdcrafting.org

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