Hacker journalism
Data is definitely journalism
It’s a hot topic among journalists right now: Is data journalism? Is it journalism to publish a raw database? Here, at last, is the definitive, two-part answer: 1. Who cares? 2. I hope my competitors waste their time arguing about this as long as possible.
— Adrian Holovaty, founder of EveryBlock.com, in a post on his [...]
What is the future of data journalism?
Five years ago, a mock mini-documentary began making its way around the Internet, predicting Web technologies that would destroy the news industry. The video, produced by a couple of Poynter fellows, predicts a company called Googlezon, which by 2010 has almost completely automated traditional journalism. If you haven’t seen EPIC 2015 (back story here), you [...]
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