What Is Data Journalism — Journalists Offer An “Explication”
The good people at the Journalism in the Americas Blog, who just hosted the always interesting International Symposium on Online Journalism, alerted us to a useful new video, “Data Journalism: An Explication.” Here are journalists doing their best to define data journalism.
The video comes from Cindy Royal, an associate professor, and Dale Blasingame, a lecturer, in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University. The two researchers are digging into how scholars and journalists conceptualize data journalism, and are collecting written and oral material. Worth a look…
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