This document discusses the rise of open data journalism and the use of data in journalism. It notes the expanding sources of open government, commercial, social, and crisis data available. It highlights the importance of evaluating data licenses, terms of use, governance, and formats when using open data. Several quotes are provided that discuss trends in data-driven journalism, the role of data in news organizations, and how data can help journalists find and tell stories.

1. Open Data Journalism
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2. 2012: a networked public sphere

3. The
stream

4. Open Journalism

5. An expanding number of data sources

6. Open government data platforms

7. Commercial and industry data

8. Social data and crisis data

9. Fauxpen Data
In an age of “openwashing”…
We need to:
Evaluate licenses.
Peruse the Terms of Service.
Review the governance.
Look at community.
Check the format.

11. “Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

12. “We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

13. “Trendy but not new”-Simon Rogers,
Guardian

14. Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

16. “Newspapers are either going
to start doing what we do, or
they're going to be bypassed
and out of date.”
-Elliot Jaspin
That was 1986, in Time.

17. More than 36 interactive databases published
Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic
[Source: CJR]

18. Source: How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse

20. “Make small things faster, make big things
possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT
TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

25. Public-private data hybrids

26. “If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and
scrape data,” then…
Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to
release data” in easy to use formats.
Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”,
and those sources of data are going to be
automated and updated in real-time.”
-Javaun Moradi, NPR

27. Safecast
open source
Geiger counter

28. Robo-journalism?

29. Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories.
We use them like we use a telephone.
The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros
USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

30. Data journalists, meet civic hackers
Source: BuzzData

31. Homicide Watch

32. Co-create a stronger union