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Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News traces the emergence
of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth
of data journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by
an increasing number of professional identities, tools and
technologies, educational opportunities and new forms of
collaboration and computational thinking. The authors base their
analysis on five years of in-depth field research, largely in
Canada, an example of a mature media system. The book identifies
how data journalism's development is partly due to it being at the
center of multiple crises and shocks to journalism, including
digitalization, acute mis- and dis-information concerns and
increasingly participatory audiences. It highlights how data
journalists, particularly in well-resourced newsrooms, are able to
address issues of trust and credibility to advance their
professional interests. These journalists are operating as
institutional entrepreneurs in a field still responding to the
disruption effects of digitalization more than 20 years ago. By
exploring the ways in which data journalists are strategically
working to modernize the way journalists talk about methods and
maintain journalism authority, Data Journalism and the Regeneration
of News introduces an important new dimension to the study of
digital journalism for researchers, students and educators.
Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News traces the emergence
of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth
of data journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by
an increasing number of professional identities, tools and
technologies, educational opportunities and new forms of
collaboration and computational thinking. The authors base their
analysis on five years of in-depth field research, largely in
Canada, an example of a mature media system. The book identifies
how data journalism's development is partly due to it being at the
center of multiple crises and shocks to journalism, including
digitalization, acute mis- and dis-information concerns and
increasingly participatory audiences. It highlights how data
journalists, particularly in well-resourced newsrooms, are able to
address issues of trust and credibility to advance their
professional interests. These journalists are operating as
institutional entrepreneurs in a field still responding to the
disruption effects of digitalization more than 20 years ago. By
exploring the ways in which data journalists are strategically
working to modernize the way journalists talk about methods and
maintain journalism authority, Data Journalism and the Regeneration
of News introduces an important new dimension to the study of
digital journalism for researchers, students and educators.
How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what
good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise
do journalists have, and what role should and do they play in
society? Until a couple of decades ago, journalists rarely asked
these questions, largely because the answers were generally
undisputed. Now, the stakes are rising for journalists as they face
real-time critique and audience pushback for their ethics, news
reporting, and relevance. Yet the crises facing journalism have
been narrowly defined as the result of disruption by new
technologies and economic decline. This book argues that the
concerns are in fact much more profound. Drawing on their five
years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada, in a
variety of news organizations from startups and freelancers to
mainstream media, the authors find a digital reckoning taking place
regarding journalism's founding ideals and methods. The book
explores journalism's long-standing representational harms, arguing
that despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in
journalism, the profession hasn't adequately addressed matters of
gender, race, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. In doing
so, the authors rethink the basis for what journalism says it could
and should do, suggesting that a turn to strong objectivity and
systems journalism provides a path forward. They offer insights
from journalists' own experiences and efforts at repair, reform,
and transformation to consider how journalism can address its
limits and possibilities along with widening media publics.
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