Reinventing Journalism Through Experimentation: Some Examples From NICAR 2012

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REINVENTING JOURNALISM THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: MITZI LEWIS, MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY “DIY DISRUPTION: REINVENTING JOURNALISM THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION” PANEL AEJMC 2012 CONFERENCE AUGUST 9, 2012 SOME EXAMPLES FROM NICAR 2012

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REINVENTING JOURNALISM                                                                                     THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION:

MITZI LEWIS, MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY “DIY DISRUPTION: REINVENTING JOURNALISM THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION” PANEL AEJMC 2012 CONFERENCE AUGUST 9, 2012

SOME EXAMPLES FROM NICAR 2012

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WHAT IS DATA JOURNALISM “Data journalism is a new set of skills for

searching, understanding and visualizing digital sources in a time that basic skills from traditional journalism just aren’t enough. It’s not a replacement of traditional journalism, but an addition to it.”

Jerry Vermanen Source: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/introduction_2.html

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“The growing importance of data journalism lies in the ability of its practitioners to provide context, clarity and, perhaps the most important, find truth in the expanding amount of digital content in the world.”

Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/profile-of-the-data-journalist-6.html

Alex Howard O-Reilly Media

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“Data journalism is the new punk”

Simon Rogers, guardian.co.uk//data editor

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/24/data-journalism-punk

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http://www.knightfoundation.org/

Source: http://www.knightfoundation.org/

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http://www.knightfoundation.org/

Source: http://www.knightfoundation.org/

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“The energy level was incredible. I didn’t see participants wringing their hands and worrying about the future of journalism. They’re too busy building it.” David Herzog Missouri School of Journalism NICAR Academic Advisor   Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/rise-of-the-data-journalists.html

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Source: http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

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Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2012/02/private-security-contractors-in-iraq-analysis/

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“A FULL-TEXT VISUALIZATION OF THE IRAQ WAR LOGS”

Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2010/12/a-full-text-visualization-of-the-iraq-war-logs/

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Source: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2012/02/private-security-contractors-in-iraq-analysis/

“USING OVERVIEW TO ANALYZE 4500 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS ON SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ”

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Source: http://yfrog.com/nu2drnoj

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DRONE JOURNALISM DEMO

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LEARNING IS HARD

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“We have to be inventors, because we have the chance and duty to re-invent journalism. But all great inventors have one thing in common: they saw big challenges as even bigger opportunities. Let’s adjust our mindset and embrace changes as chances. If we do so, anything is possible.”

Johannes Kuhn UGC Editor for Zeit Online   Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/young-journalists/august-debate/the-challenges-feel-blessed-integrate-innovate/

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TIPS FOR FOSTERING STUDENT EXPERIMENTATION

Show examples. Explain how they were done. Then go hands on. Just do it! Realize that “failure is part of the process.”* Participate in the community. Remind students—and model for them—that experimentation is FUN!

*Paul Bradshaw, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/15/media-two-tribes-arts-technology

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KEEPING UP WITH DATA JOURNALISM Tools, slides and links from NICAR12:chryswu.com/blog/2012/02/22/tools-slides-and-links-from-nicar12

NICAR website: http://www.ire.org/nicar/

The Data Journalism Handbook: datajournalismhandbook.org/

Data driven journalism resources: datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/

NICAR mailing list:http://www.ire.org/resource-center/listservs/subscribe-nicar-l/

Open data and data driven journalism mailing list:http://datadrivenjournalism.net/mailinglist

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QUESTIONS/ COMMENTS Presentation: bit.ly/aejmc12-diy or

Contact info: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @mitzilewis