5. Not everyone is the New York Times.
Journalism and technology collaborations:
New Tools
+ Timeline.js
+ Meograph
+ Piktochart.com
+ Ushahidi
+ ScrollKit.com
8. Where’s the data? What tools?
Online tools
- The Data Journalism Handbook
(www.datajournalismhandbook.org)
Data Sources:
+ Government Sources (Census, Budget, Social
Services)
+ NGO Data Sets (UN, World Bank)
+ Corporate Sources (Annual Reports)
+ Create your own data (citizen contributed)
12. “It is the best of times…
New digital tools and methods of investigation and
storytelling
Digital tools find stories in the data
Digital requires:
- Technology
- Design
- Engaged audiences
BUT…
13. “It is also the worst of times…
Traditional media struggling, limited resources for
complex stories
Competition for foundation grants and fellowships
increasing
Digital media mostly focused on “breaking news” and
opinion
14. How do we fund investigative journalism?
Funding
• Grants
• Crowd Funded
• Syndication
Revenues
• Advertising
Publication • Subscriptions
• Purchase –
e*publications
15. Grants – Investigative Journalism Centres
Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism
ThaiPublica
16. Media Pre-sale – Syndication
All media companies want good stories
But may not be able to fund them alone
Create networks of media to distribute media for a fee
19. Crowdfunding – a global phenomena
Catarse.me Brazil
M-Changa - Kenya
ZecZec.com - Taiwan
Wishberry - India
20. Paid Content
Many paid content models emerging, but…
…requirements are not easy to meet:
- online payments infrastructure (like paypal, alipay)
- or hybrid offline payment, online fulfillment model
- online curation and recommendation engines
- the major platforms limited to text and illustration
Mobile platforms are helping to solve some problems
24. Purchasing Platforms – The e*Book Platforms
-
Over 5 million sold
Price 99¢ to $2.99
Limited to text narrative
Limited languages
25. What about advertising?
Growing market, but model requires
- Context
- Page views
Advertising doesn’t yet provide a premium for
engagement
Video may create a model, but still a small part of the
global advertising mix
26. It is both the best and worst of times.
New tools to aid the investigation
New techniques to tell the story and engage the
audience
Funding is a challenge
+ Matching costs with potential revenues
+ Managing multiple revenue streams
+ Understanding and implementing the technology
The event in question happened in February 2012, the story was published in December 2012. Months of work, hand coded to produce the effect of scrollingMobile orientedMultimediaText only part of the story. Produced in the NytimesIdeaLab.But not everyone is the NYtimes
The Asia Society: Water: Asia’s Next ChallengeNot a traditional news companyBut engaged in highlighting issues of importance to AsiaProduced internally, small investment and staff.