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REINVENTING JOURNALISM THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION:
MITZI LEWIS, MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY “DIY DISRUPTION: REINVENTING JOURNALISM THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION” PANEL AEJMC 2012 CONFERENCE AUGUST 9, 2012
SOME EXAMPLES FROM NICAR 2012
WHAT IS DATA JOURNALISM “Data journalism is a new set of skills for
searching, understanding and visualizing digital sources in a time that basic skills from traditional journalism just aren’t enough. It’s not a replacement of traditional journalism, but an addition to it.”
Jerry Vermanen Source: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/introduction_2.html
“The growing importance of data journalism lies in the ability of its practitioners to provide context, clarity and, perhaps the most important, find truth in the expanding amount of digital content in the world.”
Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/profile-of-the-data-journalist-6.html
Alex Howard O-Reilly Media
“Data journalism is the new punk”
Simon Rogers, guardian.co.uk//data editor
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/24/data-journalism-punk
http://www.knightfoundation.org/
Source: http://www.knightfoundation.org/
http://www.knightfoundation.org/
Source: http://www.knightfoundation.org/
“The energy level was incredible. I didn’t see participants wringing their hands and worrying about the future of journalism. They’re too busy building it.” David Herzog Missouri School of Journalism NICAR Academic Advisor Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/rise-of-the-data-journalists.html
Source: http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2012/02/private-security-contractors-in-iraq-analysis/
“A FULL-TEXT VISUALIZATION OF THE IRAQ WAR LOGS”
Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2010/12/a-full-text-visualization-of-the-iraq-war-logs/
Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2012/02/private-security-contractors-in-iraq-analysis/
“USING OVERVIEW TO ANALYZE 4500 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS ON SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ”
Source: http://yfrog.com/nu2drnoj
DRONE JOURNALISM DEMO
LEARNING IS HARD
“We have to be inventors, because we have the chance and duty to re-invent journalism. But all great inventors have one thing in common: they saw big challenges as even bigger opportunities. Let’s adjust our mindset and embrace changes as chances. If we do so, anything is possible.”
Johannes Kuhn UGC Editor for Zeit Online Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/young-journalists/august-debate/the-challenges-feel-blessed-integrate-innovate/
TIPS FOR FOSTERING STUDENT EXPERIMENTATION
Show examples. Explain how they were done. Then go hands on. Just do it! Realize that “failure is part of the process.”* Participate in the community. Remind students—and model for them—that experimentation is FUN!
*Paul Bradshaw, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/15/media-two-tribes-arts-technology
KEEPING UP WITH DATA JOURNALISM Tools, slides and links from NICAR12:chryswu.com/blog/2012/02/22/tools-slides-and-links-from-nicar12
NICAR website: http://www.ire.org/nicar/
The Data Journalism Handbook: datajournalismhandbook.org/
Data driven journalism resources: datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/
NICAR mailing list:http://www.ire.org/resource-center/listservs/subscribe-nicar-l/
Open data and data driven journalism mailing list:http://datadrivenjournalism.net/mailinglist
QUESTIONS/ COMMENTS Presentation: bit.ly/aejmc12-diy or
Contact info: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @mitzilewis