Earlier this year I was asked to write a chapter for a book on the future of investigative journalism – ‘Investigative Journalism: Dead Or Alive?‘. I’m reproducing it here. The chapter was originally published on my Facebook page. An open event around the book’s launch, with a panel discussion, is being held at the Frontline Club next month. We may
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Last week I published an inverted pyramid of data journalism which attempted to map processes from initial compilation of data through cleaning, contextualising, and combining that. The final stage – communication – needed a post of its own, so here it is. UPDATE: Now in Spanish too. Below is a diagram illustrating 6 different types of communication in data journalism.
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ProPublica have created a rather wonderful news app around education data. As Nieman reports: “The app invites both macro and micro analysis, with an implicit focus on personal relevance: You can parse the data by state, or you can drill down to individual schools and districts — the high school you went to, or the one that’s in your neighborhood. And then, even
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A few months ago I heard ProPublica’s Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson speak at the Digital Editors Network Data Meet, giving their advice on data journalism projects. I thought I might publish notes of five tips they had here for the record: 1. Three-quarters of the top 10 stories on the site were news apps Online applications prove very popular
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Here’s another collection of questions from a University of Montana student that I’m answering here as part of my FAQ section: Q: What do you see is the future for investigative journalism? Do you still see it as having a home at newspapers? I think the future of investigative journalism is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed,as William Gibson
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Karthika Muthukumaraswamy on how crowdsourcing experiments in journalism need to learn from their commercial counterparts – and how the end results could bring financial rewards for everyone. The crowd has done a great deal for journalism: it has counted the number of SUVs on the streets of New York City, determined Bill Clinton’s financial impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and offered
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