50%+ of our online traffic comes from mobile.
On Friday 8th, to check the election results, 85% of users were on mobile and tablet.
Let's get it out of the way right now: whatever your background is (TV, radio...), if you're not doing online, you are out-dated.
Publishing online is not churning out a transcript of your radio piece on bbc.co.uk/news. Online, as are radio and TV, is a medium itself, and catering for online is as hard as producing a compelling TV package.
Good writing and good journalism have a place of choice on the internets. See the rise of "long-form" online, and the success that some of these pieces and stories have had. Example: What is Code? Long Reads)
News in 15-second videos. Originally started on Instagram.
Daily visualised data journalism or capitions, shared on social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). Teasers for future stories and breaking news.
60-second news bulletin produced in a "Newsbeat" style: short, sharp, tone angled for youth. Updated for a global audience every 30 minutes.
Experiments with non-traditional audiences and with a very non-traditional format. Ex: big reach of the Line channel in Asia, where traditional BBC products are struggling.
- BBC Line account, 1 million subscribers
- Pilots on WhatsApp and WeChat for the 2014 India elections, for the Ebola outbreak (W. Africa)
- Emergency information on Viber during the Nepalese earthquake
Media coverage of the issues in the run up to the general election.
- Shows the weight of political parties in the media
- Cross-media coverage of the Issues (Education, Immigration, Economy, Law and Order, Healthcare, Pensions, EU, Taxation, Housing) - note that these issues were defined by News Editorial
- Filter by media source: how the Guardian's coverage different from the Mail's? The BBC's versus Sky's?
Compare how and how much different media organisations are covering... everything.
- Data will become even more of a strategic resource for media.
- Better tools will emerge that democratize data skills.
- News apps will explode as a primary way for people to consume data journalism.
- Being digital first means being data-centric and mobile-friendly.
- Expect more robojournalism, but know that human relationships and storytelling still matter.
- More journalists will need to study the social sciences and statistics.
- There will be higher standards for accuracy and corrections.
- Competency in security and data protection will become more important.
- Audiences will demand more transparency on reader data collection and use.
- Conflicts over public records, data scraping, and ethics will surely arise.
- Collaborate with libraries and universities as archives, hosts, and educators.
- Expect data-driven personalization and predictive news in wearable interfaces..
- More diverse newsrooms will produce better data journalism.
- Be mindful of data-ism and bad data. Embrace skepticism.
Data analysis can reveal “a story’s shape” (Sarah Cohen), or provides us with a “new camera” (David McCandless). Using data the job of journalists shifts its main focus from being the first ones to report to being the ones telling us what a certain development might actually mean. This is why journalists should see data as an opportunity. They can, for example, reveal how some abstract threat such as unemployment affects people based on their age, gender, education. Using data transforms something abstract into something everyone can understand and relate to.
- Data-journalism is new
- If you hate maths, forget ddj
- If you don't write code, you're not a data-reporter
- ddj is just for nerds
- ddj is the future
Very optimistic
Collaboration Early-involvement
The three journalists who made up La Nación’s investigative unit — Giannina Segnini, Mauricio Herrera, and Rivera — deployed the full arsenal of traditional reporting techniques as they pursued the story. But the sheer magnitude of the financial and political information they unearthed prompted them to rely increasingly on computerized tools to rummage through databases that revealed unexpected connections. While tips from well-informed sources like the disgruntled real estate agent are vital, says Segnini, human sources also have limitations: “You can’t visit 160,000 people,” she notes. “But you can easily interrogate 160,000 records.”
Classic great ProPublica piece.
- Long-form
- Web charts
- Social: "Ask us anything on Reddit" w/ reporters and a Haiti aid expert
- Access the documents
