Data-driven radio journalism
An introduction to the workshop
Jacopo Ottaviani – @JacopoOttaviani
Istanbul, 28-29 September 2015
Input
- Data
- Numbers
- Statistics
- Tables
- Reports with figures
- Spreadsheets (e.g. Excel)
- Geographic data
- Other structured datasets
Output
Stories packaged in various formats, such as:
- Text articles
- Video
- Radio pieces
- Visuals (charts, maps)
- Series
- Vaster media operations
Data journalism in a nutshell
Input
- Data
- Numbers
- Statistics
- Tables
- Reports with figures
- Spreadsheets (e.g. Excel)
- Geographic data
- Other structured datasets
Output
Stories packaged in various formats, such as:
- Text articles
- Video
- Radio pieces
- Visuals (charts, maps)
- Online media
- Vaster media operations
Data journalism in a nutshell
From this:
To this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or both
i.e., running a cross-platform strategy
- http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
- http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief
www.themigrantsfiles.com
Data is not necessarily the only element the story is based on.
Data is not necessarily the only element the story is based on.
Data journalism can be integrated within traditional content
Data is not necessarily the only element the story is based on.
Data journalism can be integrated within traditional content
Data is a tool to strengthen and
complement existing methods to tell stories
Data can be seen as a goldmine of stories, as well as a resource to contextualise narratives
Digging into a dataset can lead you to interesting stories.
You can aggregate, filter, refine, cross and finally visualise data.
We'll explore tools and methods that can be combined to package and publish your content
Calc / Excel – spreadsheets
CartoDB (maps)
OpenRefine
Datawrapper (charts)
Generic methods to build radio data-driven narratives, e.g:
- More inspiration to find data stories here: http://datatherapy.org/activities/activity-finding-a-story-in-data/
- Research questions
- Zooming in/out
- Local vs. Global
- Data humanisation
- Contextualisation
Micro-data teams
-
data expert
-
radio journalist(s)
Micro-data teams
-
data expert
-
radio journalist(s)
We'll interact and combine different skill sets and experiences to make experiments of radio data-driven journalism.
We want to build data-driven radio stories based on datasets made by human rights advocates.
Human rights advocates and journalists will join forces to maximise the impact of the stories and HR advocacy
We want to build data-driven radio stories based on datasets made by human rights advocates.