This document discusses data-driven journalism and its potential to save struggling newsrooms. It defines data-driven journalism as using data to transform boring information into relevant stories. The document notes that while media businesses are struggling, data-driven journalism offers opportunities through tools like open data and data visualizations. It presents examples of data-driven stories and argues that newsrooms should embrace a data-aware approach, combining the skills of journalists, developers and designers. The document concludes by inviting the reader to join the community practicing this type of innovative journalism.

1. DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM:
SAVING
NEWSROOMS,
ONE AT A TIME
Ljubljana - Naprey/Forward 2012
Mirko Lorenz

2. MIRKO LORENZ
JOURNALIST
/INFORMATION ARCHITECT/
TRAINER

3. AN AMBASSADOR
FROM A GROWING
COMMUNITY OF
DATA JOURNALISTS &
HACKERS

4. WHAT IS #DDJ?
HOW IS IT DONE?
WHAT‘S IN IT FOR YOU?

5. WHAT THE *$‘+# IS
DATA-DRIVEN
JOURNALISM?

6. DEF:
DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM
= WORKFLOW
PROCESS:
FROM BORING TO RELEVANT

7. DATA-JOURNALISM IS
NOT NEW

8. Charles Joseph Minard: Sankey-Diagram of Napoleons Campaign in 1812, published 1869

9. STORIES THAT HAVE
DATA CAN BE
POWERFUL

12. DATA-JOURNALISM
COULD BE A
„THE NEW CAMERA“

13. IMMER FRAGEN: IM VERGLEICH ZU WAS?
(EDWARD TUFTE)
Edward Tufte: To be truthful and revealing, data graphics must bear on the
question at the heart of quantitative thinking: “Compared to what?, from:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

15. Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful
PUT NUMBERS IN CONTEXT,
HELP THE READER UNDERSTAND

16. Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

21. DATA-AWARE
NEWSROOMS
IS ALL WE NEED

22. DOWNSIDE
- MEDIA BUSINESS UNDER SIEGE
- QUANTITY OVER QUALITY
- NEWSROOMS ARE CLOSING

24. „JOURNALISTS, WHERE DO YOU
ADD VALUE?“
- JEFF JARVIS

25. UPSIDE
- MORE DATA (LOTS OF...)
- OPEN DATA
- OPEN SOURCE TOOLS

26. DATA IN THE NEWSROOM:
DATA STORY
DATA INTERACTIVE
DATA APPS

27. Quelle: New York Times

28. Quelle: New York Times

29. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html

31. Roles in the Hacks/Hackers Newsroom
Journalist
DeveloperDesigner
The Storyteller
The Artist The Mechanic
CC-BY: Mirko Lorenz, 2012

35. Quelle: Alan McLean, NYT//Amsterdam, 2010

37. FUTURE
- FILTER BETTER
- DIG DEEPER
- ANSWER REAL QUESTIONS

38. JOIN US: #DDJ

39. DATA STORY
ONAGLOWINGRECTANGLENEARYOU
„Our city is now a better place“
-- Local Authority
„It‘s a wonder how we could do without it“
-- Government
DIGGING DEEPER
AN OPEN DATA PRODUCTION
„Surprisingly
helpful“
-- User
THE
MOVIE?

40. THANK YOU.