Bill Adair Duke University/PolitiFact

Structure is the Future of Journalism

Structured journalism reimagines the news story

and breaks it into component parts, giving

more flexibility to journalist and reader.

Structured journalism • Each story/entry has many fields• Allows the narrative or characters

to be organized and described many ways

• Allows sorting, tallying of stories• Puts the reader in charge

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The data fields allow you to present your journalism in new ways