data journalism

English

Noun

data journalism (uncountable)

1. A type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.
   • 2011 July 28, Simon Rogers, “Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.

   • 2021 September 13, Pamela Duncan, “‘Numbers you can tell stories with’: a decade of Guardian data journalism”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     It attracted a “nascent data journalism community” including other journalists, developers, data scientists, advocates of open data and others who did not want simply to consume stories, but engage with the underlying facts.

   • 2022, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

     Emma Pierson, a computer scientist and data scientist, studied 1 million matches on eHarmony and wrote up her results on the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight.

Related terms

• data journalist
• data science

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: datajournalismi
• French: journalisme de données (fr) f
• German: Datenjournalismus m

Further reading

• data journalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia