Infographies, journalisme graphique et data en dessert - storify.com. Opinion: Why The Daily Is So Yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I received personal email from someone at Rupert Murdoch’s just-announced iPad app and national news publication, The Daily, encouraging me to post “info, images, video, and more” from their news release. Those who aren’t interested in the inside baseball of new publishing ventures probably missed or ignored the announcement—after all, we’re talking about just another iPad news app, which isn’t exactly news beyond the publishing industry. So why am I telling you about it? A few reasons. The most overarching reason is that the iPad has been hailed by some as the savior of the publishing industry.
That hasn’t happened so far, with high-profile magazine apps from the likes of Wired seeing initial interest (100,000 app sales of the first edition) followed by rapidly declining sales (down to 20,000 after a few months). And Wired has been the most successful. Also, in this celebrity-focused age, any move by a billionaire must be interesting, no?
iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint. Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they’ve just been stumbling over themselves. They are latching onto the iPad as a new walled garden where people will somehow magically pay for articles they can get for free in their browsers. But if they want people to pay, the experience has to be better than on the Web, and usually it’s not. This sorry state of affairs is true for both magazines and newspapers. The New York Times iPad app, for instance, is gorgeous but crippled. Despite the poor reviews and uninspiring number of downloads, media companies sold millions of dollars worth of advertising last year for their iPad apps because advertisers want to be associated with anything shiny and new.
However, I am not holding my breath. At the very least, Apple should fix the subscription problem in iTunes. But making these media apps social and realtime is the key. Journalism in the Age of Data: Visualization as a Storytelling Medium - VisMaster. Sep 30th, 2010 | By Dr. Enrico Bertini | Category: In the Media Journalism in the Age of Data [stanford.edu] is a must-see documentary of about 54 minutes, ‘starring’ some of the most talented and well-known data visualization practitioners of today. The covered topics are wide, but include contemporary issues like Visualization in Journalism, Telling “Data Stories”, Exploring Data or Technology and Tools. It was produced during the U.S. Knight Journalism Fellowship by Geoff McGhee, titled “Documenting emerging uses of data visualization”. Expect to see interviews with or about (in alphabetical order) BBC News, Nicholas Felton, Ben Fry, Google, Jeff Heer, Nigel Holmes, Jonathan Jarvis, Aaron Koblin, MSNBC, The New York Times Graphics Division (e.g.
Stephen Duenes and “Queen of Infovis” Amanda Cox), The Wall Street Journal, Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design), Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, and many many more… Source and quoted from: infosthetics.com. How to be a data journalist | News. Data journalism is huge. I don't mean 'huge' as in fashionable - although it has become that in recent months - but 'huge' as in 'incomprehensibly enormous'. It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and programming. The idea of combining those skills to tell important stories is powerful - but also intimidating. Who can do all that? The reality is that almost no one is doing all of that, but there are enough different parts of the puzzle for people to easily get involved in, and go from there. 1. 'Finding data' can involve anything from having expert knowledge and contacts to being able to use computer assisted reporting skills or, for some, specific technical skills such as MySQL or Python to gather the data for you. 2. 3. 4.
Tools such as ManyEyes for visualisation, and Yahoo! How to begin? So where does a budding data journalist start? Play around. And you know what? 2010-2011: Etat des lieux des médias américains. Data journalism and data visualization | News.