Authors :
Aiswarya Lakshmi
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 6 - June
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/9nMw
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/3gKbdR3
DOI :
10.38124/IJISRT20JUN715
Abstract :
When Digital technology brought online
journalism and new practices into newsrooms that
made a huge impact on Indian newsrooms articles that
lead to different perspective stories which gave a lot of
space for creativity, this allowed every citizen to become
online journalist that was a great milestone in digital
evolution. But, when the news credibility in online
journalism gradually fell, many journalist and
publishers worried that admired principles of news
reporting, experience and intuition might decline or
even disappear. On the other hand, they fail to realise
that this will empower journalists to use numbers to tell
stories with fewer anecdotes, more reliability and to
cover challenging invisible stories.
Journalism has always involved numbers and data
analysis was also a part of it. Then a new practice,
“Data journalism” sparked in the newsroom that
involves data to find a story and create visualizations
which are not a very easy process in the newsroom.
Howard (2014) in his study mentioned that 21st century
was a change for mobile computing that lead to
increases in online connectivity, access, speed and an
explosion in data creation that completely changed the
landscape for computer-assisted reporting. Another
study by Parasie and Dagiral (2012) argued that data
journalism comes into light because of hacker culture,
initially, the hackers deal with the open-source and open
government with some political values, which injects a
new culture into the newsrooms.
When we look at the national context there are
many challenges to adapt in India newsrooms and
confusion about its role and importance in the field of
journalism. The major focus of this research is to find
the complications faced by journalists while
incorporating data into their news organization. The
sample consisted of data journalists from various parts
of India
Keywords :
Data journalism, Newsroom, Data, Journalists.
When Digital technology brought online
journalism and new practices into newsrooms that
made a huge impact on Indian newsrooms articles that
lead to different perspective stories which gave a lot of
space for creativity, this allowed every citizen to become
online journalist that was a great milestone in digital
evolution. But, when the news credibility in online
journalism gradually fell, many journalist and
publishers worried that admired principles of news
reporting, experience and intuition might decline or
even disappear. On the other hand, they fail to realise
that this will empower journalists to use numbers to tell
stories with fewer anecdotes, more reliability and to
cover challenging invisible stories.
Journalism has always involved numbers and data
analysis was also a part of it. Then a new practice,
“Data journalism” sparked in the newsroom that
involves data to find a story and create visualizations
which are not a very easy process in the newsroom.
Howard (2014) in his study mentioned that 21st century
was a change for mobile computing that lead to
increases in online connectivity, access, speed and an
explosion in data creation that completely changed the
landscape for computer-assisted reporting. Another
study by Parasie and Dagiral (2012) argued that data
journalism comes into light because of hacker culture,
initially, the hackers deal with the open-source and open
government with some political values, which injects a
new culture into the newsrooms.
When we look at the national context there are
many challenges to adapt in India newsrooms and
confusion about its role and importance in the field of
journalism. The major focus of this research is to find
the complications faced by journalists while
incorporating data into their news organization. The
sample consisted of data journalists from various parts
of India
Keywords :
Data journalism, Newsroom, Data, Journalists.
