“In the Beginning Were the Data”: Economic Journalism as/and Data Journalism

Arrese, Ángel

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2022.2032803

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“…Data journalism started to function as a separate department in newsrooms in 2010 and onwards, and it continues to be increasingly influential. On the other hand, economy/business-orientated newspapers have been associated with data and statistics for a very long time (Arrese 2022;Munoriyarwa 2022). The newspaper under analysis originated as an economy/business publication, establishing a historical connection between the newspaper and data dating back to its inception.…”

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“…Another type of capital for data journalists is symbolic capital. Economy/businessbased newspapers have always been in contact with data from the past to the present (Arrese 2022). This may be due to the historical background that led the newspaper in this study to a remarkable position in data journalism.…”

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The Datafication of Newsrooms: A Study on Data Journalism Practices in a British Newspaper

Kalender

2024

Journalism and Media

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This study investigates the function of data journalism in a UK newsroom using Bourdieu’s field theory. The collection of study data was conducted through in-depth interviews, utilising a qualitative research methodology. The data obtained revealed that data journalism, a sub-field of journalism, continues to develop in an interdisciplinary structure and creates a new type of habitus (data habitus) within the field of journalism. This study also shows that the data journalism team in the newspaper has moved from being niche to being established as one of the most active and effective main sections of the newsroom, and that data-driven journalism has the potential to influence other teams. Lastly, this study suggested that the newsroom is undergoing a process of datafication by indicating the newspaper’s intention to develop data skills beyond the data journalism team.

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The Datafication of Newsrooms: A Study on Data Journalism Practices in a British Newspaper

Kalender

2024

Journalism and Media

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“…This specialization illustrated how the media environment was changing and how data represented and influenced society ( Van-Dijck, 2014;Porlezza, 2019). Arrese (2022) insists that the essence of data journalism comes from economic journalism, especially because of its purpose: to reduce uncertainty and guide decision-making. Despite identifying successive initiatives, the term began to become popular, especially from 2010 onward with Wikileaks and Tim Berners-Lee's statements, in which he assured that the future of journalism lay in data analysis (Howard, 2014;Uskali;Kuuti, 2015).…”

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Data journalism in Spain and Austria: features, organizational structure, limitations, and future perspectives

Córdoba-Cabús

Huber

Batlle

2023

EPI

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This paper makes an important contribution to comparative research by examining data journalism in Spain and Austria. This paper examines the practice of data journalism from a triple perspective: (a) the common features of day-to-day work, (b) the organizational structure and the role of the teams in newsrooms, and (c) the obstacles to and the future of data-driven reporting. Results from content analysis of data-driven news stories in El país and Der standard (N = 136) show differences and similarities in the covered topics, sources, narrative style, visualizations, interactive functions, and levels of transparency. Interestingly, only 36.8% of the analyzed news stories correspond to the normative expectations of transparency by incorporating both sources and methodological details. While the Spanish newspaper shows significantly higher levels of transparency compared with the Austrian newspaper, both newspapers perform very similarly when it comes to providing access to raw data, which was the case in only every fifth news story analyzed. Findings from focused interviews with the heads of data journalism teams deliver interesting insights into specific challenges that each news outlet is facing when creating day-to-day data-driven news stories. This research confirms the relevance that data journalism has achieved in countries such as Spain and demonstrates the effort of journalists in countries without access to information and transparency laws to create data-driven stories.

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(Dis)Information, Dysfunctions, and Democracy during the Global Pandemic: Is the Vision of Social Justice a Mirage (for Libraries) in the Neoliberal Age?

Mehra¹

2023

The Library Quarterly

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“In the Beginning Were the Data”: Economic Journalism as/and Data Journalism

Cited by 5 publications

References 79 publications

The Datafication of Newsrooms: A Study on Data Journalism Practices in a British Newspaper

The Datafication of Newsrooms: A Study on Data Journalism Practices in a British Newspaper

Data journalism in Spain and Austria: features, organizational structure, limitations, and future perspectives

(Dis)Information, Dysfunctions, and Democracy during the Global Pandemic: Is the Vision of Social Justice a Mirage (for Libraries) in the Neoliberal Age?

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