journalism in the digital world - november 2013

Journalism in the Digital World– presented to CIJ – Nepal8 November 2013Kathmandu, Nepal

“It is the best of times…

Visual storytelling

Data journalism

Civic engagement

“Snowfall” – New York Times

Visual Storytelling

“Water: Asia’s Next Challenge” – The Asia Society

Visual Storytelling

Not everyone is the New York Times.

Journalism and technology collaborations:

New Tools+ Timeline.js+ Meograph+ Piktochart.com+ Ushahidi+ ScrollKit.com

“Rede de Escandalos” – Veja, Sao Paolo

Data Journalism

“Undi.info” – Malaysiakini.com

Data Journalism

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)

NREG – SwaraNet.org/MojoLab

Data Collection

MP’s Expenses – The Guardian

Civic Engagement

IPaidABribe.com – Janaagraha, Bangalore

Civic Engagement

“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…

“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

• Advertising• Subscriptions• Purchase –

e*publications

• Grants• Crowd Funded• Syndication

How do we fund investigative journalism?

Funding

Publication

Revenues

Grants – Investigative Journalism Centres

Philippine Center for Investigative

Journalism

ThaiPublica

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

Media Pre-sale – Syndication

Crowdfunding

KickStarter

Crowdfunding – a global phenomena

Catarse.me - Brazil

M-Changa - Kenya

ZecZec.com - Taiwan

Wishberry - India

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

Subscription Platforms – The New Breed

ByLiner.com

Subscription Platforms – The Old Guard

the Paris Review

Purchasing Platforms – e*Publishing

Purchasing Platforms – The e*Book Platforms

- Over 5 million sold- Price 99¢ to $2.99- Limited to text narrative- Limited languages

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

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

Thank you

Questions?