The Strategic Value of Data Journalism

de-Lima-Santos, Mathias-Felipe; Mesquita, Lucia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65860-1_4

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“…On another perspective, a growing movement of data journalists is building platforms that combine interactive maps with environmental data and traditional reporting to tell stories of the harmful effects of human activities on the environment (Salovaara, 2016). However, scholars have failed to discuss the implications of such approaches from an audience-centered perspective (de-Lima-Santos and Mesquita, 2021a, 2021b). It is important to understand how data journalism projects involve the public in the news processes.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Despite these obstacles, civic society organizations in the African context were identified as promoters of data journalism practices in the continent (Cheruiyot et al, 2019). A similar approach was adopted in Latin America to support journalists and technologists in pursuing data-driven skills (Borges-Rey, 2019; de-Lima-Santos and Mesquita, 2021b). By promoting the adoption of data journalism practices, civil society actors played an important role in enhancing the truth-telling mission of journalism using basic data-driven techniques, diversifying the sources to retrieve data, and promoting citizen participation (de-Lima-Santos, 2022; Palomo et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, geojournalism aims to provide a deeper understanding of complex issues and help audiences better comprehend the relationships between people, places, and events. Overall, geojournalism offers a powerful tool for journalists to tell stories in new and engaging ways, making it easier to identify patterns, trends, and correlations in georeferenced data and communicate complex information in a more accessible way (de-Lima-Santos and Mesquita, 2021b).…”

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Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria

Elega,

de-Lima-Santos,

Mesquita

2024

Journalism

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Data journalism is increasingly vital in our data-driven society, requiring professionals to gather, analyze, and visualize data for public understanding. While scholars recognize its significance, the audience-centric aspects remain underexplored. This study focuses on Eco-Nai+, a digital geo-journalism platform aiming to be Nigeria’s first. It provides interactive data access via web and mobile apps and tools for geospatial data handling. Employing a multi-method approach, including document analysis, interviews, and platform analysis, this study examines how geo-data enhances data-driven storytelling, fosters cooperation and co-creation in data collection, and creates a new income stream for news organizations. From a business standpoint, Eco-Nai + functions as a “newstech” company, capitalizing on digital age challenges. It offers journalists a means to inform and engage the public and policymakers in vital environmental discussions, especially in environments with limited open data sources. Crowdsourcing data is critical in this context, where open data and freedom of information legislation are lacking. This research contributes to the data journalism discourse by exploring audience involvement in data-driven storytelling and advocating for public participation in data journalism projects to enhance reporting and understand data’s societal role. It also underscores the value of geojournalism skills in delivering spatial products and thematic maps, adding context and insights beyond numerical data. Eco-Nai + exemplifies the potential for data journalism to bridge information gaps and drive meaningful conversations in an increasingly data-centric world.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria

Elega,

de-Lima-Santos,

Mesquita

2024

Journalism

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“…There is also the challenge of lack of data competence by those operating the system about open data. Therefore, to increase the integrity of their data in the eyes of data journalists, the steps that could be taken by the Indonesian government are increasing transparency where citizens and news workers can scrutinize the data, developing services by third parties that can benefit citizens and companies, and establishing new services that spur the economy (De-Lima-Santos & Mesquita, 2021b).…”

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Verification and Data Processing of Open Data for Data-Driven News Stories in Lokadata.id and Katadata.co.id

Muthmainnah

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Fitriyani

2022

JKJ

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With the existence of open data, journalists have additional investigative tools to report on issues in the public interest and to hold the government to account. However, it remains outside the mainstream of journalism due to the limitation to access and work with data. The open data initiative in Indonesia has started since 2010. Adhering to UU No. 14 Tahun 2008 about Public Information Openness, Indonesia has implemented an open data portal, called Satu Data Indonesia in 2019. There are indeed a handful of studies that examine the implementation of open data portals in Indonesia. However, only a few studies have given attention to how data journalists are using these data and their perceptions about the quality of data provided by the government. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach and collects data through semi-structured in-depth interviews. It is intended to see the process on how data journalists in Indonesia turn data to news stories. By studying Lokadata.id and Katadata.co.id, we found that data provided by the authority sources (government) are still the main sources for data journalists in Indonesia. Despite the fact that the quality of data is getting better, most journalists in this study argued that the government’s open data has not yet integrated and has no basic standard that is collectively used. Therefore, the verification process and data processing in each media is important. The most common ways that journalists use to verify the data are by exploring the raw data, contacting the institution that provided the data, and considering the reputation of the data sources. However, there is a tendency of data journalists to be passively relying on official sources and ‘hide behind’ the perceived credibility of their sources.

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“…In Latin America, collaborative processes were also associated with innovation processes in news outlets (de-Lima-Santos and Mesquita 2021a;Schmitz Weiss et al 2018). Although many organisations and professionals are taking part in collaborative journalism, little is known about the processes involved in these efforts, or about the power relationships and structures built by practitioners to make collaboration beneficial and sustainable (Alfter and Cândea 2019).…”

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Collaborative Journalism from a Latin American Perspective: An Empirical Analysis

Mesquita

de-Lima-Santos

2021

Journalism and Media

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The practice of collaboration in journalism is not new. The developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are understood by many scholars as the critical factor for collaborative journalism to flourish across newsrooms. By working together, practitioners can address the challenges of a profession in crisis as well as the need to produce quality investigative reporting. Much of the academic discussion regarding cooperative efforts in journalism has happened in the US and Europe. This paper aims to shed light on collaborative journalism outside this region, focusing on Latin America. To conduct our study, we looked at the literature concerning collaborative journalism in the Scopus and Scielo databases to build a survey that was shared among Latin American practitioners who worked on collaborative projects in recent years. Our findings show that Latin American news organisations are taking part or forming collaborative efforts to share a set of practices, processes, and motivations. However, their motivations are different from their Western counterparts, as Latin American journalists are looking for ways to fulfil the normative role of journalism in society and occupying spaces left by the mainstream media. By doing so, practitioners focus on topics and communities that are often misrepresented, forgotten, or underreported in the media. Finally, our paper concludes by suggesting a profile of news outlets working on collaborative projects across the region, and we provide some directions for future research.

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The Strategic Value of Data Journalism

Cited by 13 publications

References 55 publications

Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria

Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria

Verification and Data Processing of Open Data for Data-Driven News Stories in Lokadata.id and Katadata.co.id

Collaborative Journalism from a Latin American Perspective: An Empirical Analysis

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