VISUAL JOURNALISM IN HUNGARY
Krisztián Szabó
Krisztián Szabó
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Átlátszó
ATLO
Visual (data) Journalism in hungary
The discourse on data journalism practices
Research methods and results
Conclusion
data journalism, data-driven journalism, database journalism, computational journalism, data visualization (Kalatzi et al. 2018)
news graphics (Cairo 2017)
(news) infographics (Weber 2017, Rendgen 2019)
what is...?
Data journalism can be defined as the process of extracting useful information from data, writing articles based on the information and embedding visualizations (interacting in some cases) in the articles that help the readers understand the significance of the story or allow them to pinpoint data that relate to them.
– Veglis & Bratsas (2017)
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GDJ vs IDJ
Alberto Cairo – Nerd Journalism (2017, pp.215-216)
Research methods
Content analysis
Interviews
| Top five most visited Hungarian online news sites* |
|---|
| index.hu |
| 24.hu |
| origo.hu |
| hvg.hu |
| telex.hu |
Details of the content analysis
*Based on the online audience reach data of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority
| Four columns |
|---|
| National news |
| World news |
| Business/economy |
| Coronavirus |
| Time span of analysis |
|---|
| 16 – 22 February 2021 |
| 29 June – 5 July 2021 |
| 9 – 15 November 2021 |
Text only: 55.82% (4012 posts)
Has image or video: 40.89% (2939 posts)
Has visualisation from elsewhere: 2.09% (150 posts)
Has self-made visualisation: 1.2% (86 posts)
| Initial hypotheses: |
|---|
| Readers are not interested in this genre |
| Newsrooms are unable to develop it |
| Difficult to learn, lack of support for gaining new knowledge |
The state of data journalism in hungary: Details of the Interviews
| Topics of conversations: |
|---|
| Professionalization |
| Adaptation of Western methods |
| Significance of data |
| Issues: |
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| Lack of available data sources |
| Lack of adequate education |
| Lack of support from newsrooms |
| Lack of experts |
| Negative effects of social media platforms |
| Interviews with eight journalists actively working in the field of data journalism |
Conclusion
| Only handful of news sites active in general data journalism (GDJ) |
| Even less sites using investigative data journalism (IDJ) skills in their work |
| Some developments but still a long way to go |
| Other issues: reader's interest; text-centered journalistic traditions; lack of funds and education; restricted, closed data |
Thank you for your attention!
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