Database journalism
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Database journalism or structured journalism is a principle in information management whereby news content is organized around structured pieces of data, as opposed to news stories. See also Data journalism
Communication scholar Wiebke Loosen defines database journalism as "supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices."[1]
History and development of database journalism
Computer programmer Adrian Holovaty wrote what is now considered the manifesto of database journalism in September 2006.[2] In this article, Holovaty explained that most material collected by journalists is "structured information: the type of information that can be sliced-and-diced, in an automated fashion, by computers".[3] For him, a key difference between database journalism and traditional journalism is that the latter produces articles as the final product while the former produces databases of facts that are continually maintained and improved.
2007 saw a rapid development in database journalism.
The importance of database journalism was highlighted when the
Seeing journalistic content as data has pushed several news organizations to release
Beginning with the early years of the 21st century, some researchers expanded the conceptual dimension for databases in journalism, and in digital journalism or cyberjournalism.[8] A conceptual approach begins to consider databases as a specificity of digital journalism, expanding their meaning and identifying them with a specific code, as opposed to the approach which perceived them as sources for the production of journalistic stories, that is, as tools, according to some of the systematized studies in the 90s.
Difference with data-driven journalism
Examples of database journalism
Early projects in this new database journalism were mySociety in the UK, launched in 2004, and Adrian Holovaty's chicagocrime.org, released in 2005.[9]
As of 2011, several databases could be considered journalistic in themselves. They include
References
- ^ Wiebke Loosen, The Second-Level Digital Divide of the Web and Its Impact on Journalism Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, First Monday, volume 7, number 8 (August 2002).
- ^ Adina Levin, Database journalism - a different definition of “news” and “reader”
- ^ Adrian Holovaty, A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
- ^ Rich Gordon, Data as journalism, journalism as data Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ EveryBlock's page on newschallenge.org
- ^ Aron Pilhofer, A PolitiFact Moment for Journalism Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jeff Jarvis, APIs: The new distribution
- ^ Suzana Barbosa; Beatriz Ribas (2008), Databases in Cyberjournalism: methodological paths
- ^ Adrian Holovaty, Announcing chicagocrime.org
See also
- Data driven journalism
- Data journalism