Abstract
In very few years in journalism, we have gone from looking at social science techniques, what was called precision journalism, to dealing with open data as a huge source of information that lead us to data journalism what connects with data science in the sense of using -again- scientific methods to extract knowledge and insights from structured data. This article offers an overview of that evolution and focuses on some prototypes that have emerged in this new journalistic ecosystem of data journalism, data visualization and data literacy.
Highlights
The practice of data journalism runs parallel to its experimentation
The Clash’s punk is a higher level, something similar to the complexity of data journalism that comes from investigative reporting and the prototypes we introduce below
One of the pioneering and reference tools for data journalism is Document Cloud12, a platform founded on the belief that if journalists were more open about their sourcing, the public would be more inclined to trust their reporting
Summary
The practice of data journalism runs parallel to its experimentation. This natural tension converges in a long string of prototypes, depending on how much importance is given to one or the other field involved in the experimentation, depending on whether one or the other aspect is of more or less interest, or on whether one has more competence over others at the time of elaborating the journalistic piece. The intervention began with the The Clash’s classic “London Calling” He showed the second page of the first issue of the underground fanzine Sideburns, published in London in 1977, which in its cover led to Stranglers with the following sentence: “This is a chord. The Clash’s punk is a higher level, something similar to the complexity of data journalism that comes from investigative reporting and the prototypes we introduce below This metaphor of the three chords is attributed to a country musician from Detroit called Harlan Howard, born in 1927 and well known for the album To the silent majority with love (Bonomo, 2015), so titled two years after President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on 3 November 1969 in order to justify the Vietnam War, a speech known as the silent majority because of this paragraph: 42 Hipertext.net, n. Punk and data journalism from the roots (Anton-Bravo, 2013)
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