Agenda

• What is data journalism?• What makes data journalism different?• Examples of data journalism conducted by news agencies or citizen

journalists.• Open data, open data Journalism.• Useful resources on the ODC website.• Who (including journalists) have used resources on ODC?• Data-driven journalism opportunity, January 2014• Q&A

What Is Data Journalism?

“Data Journalism is telling stories that are based on concrete data. Even though it is not something new and journalists have been reporting using data for quite some time, recent technological advancements have made it easier to do data journalism using a plethora of new open source tools available to us all.” – Data Journalism Handbook

Read Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?

What Makes Data Journalism Different?• New possibilities that open up

when you combine the traditional ‘nose for news’ and ability to tell a compelling story, with the sheer scale and range of digital information now available.

• Possibilities can come at any stage of the journalist’s process.

See Data Journalism Process

Modeled by Mirko Lorenz, DW

ExampleOpening up the news gathering process itself, as The Guardian do so successfully in sharing data, context, and questions with their Datablog (also MP’s expenses).

Using software to find connections between hundreds of thousands of documents, as The Telegraph did with MPs' expenses.………………………………………………………

Investigate your MP’s Expenses (The Guardian)

Example

Telling a complex story through engaging infographics.

Hans Rosling’s spectacular talks on visualizing world poverty with Gapminder, for example, have attracted millions of views across the world.

Download Gap Minder World, materials and tools

Watch ‘New Insights on Poverty’

ExampleDavid McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.

Interactive InfographicWatch his TED talk

Example

Example

Using programming to automate the process of gathering and combining information from local government, police, and other civic sources, as Adrian Holovaty did with ChicagoCrime and then EveryBlock (now closed).

Suggested ReadingsCase Studies from the News Rooms:

• The ABC’s Data Journalism Play • Data Journalism at the BBC • How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works• Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog • Data Journalism at the Zeit Online • How to Hire a Hacker

Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackthons • Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration

Our Stories Come As Code • Kaas & Mulvad

: Semi-finished Content for Stakeholder Groups • Business Models for Data Journalism

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Journalism

ODC’s Key Features

Interactive maps/ Geo-server• Land-sat images• Topographical map• Topical maps• Base-map for ‘Make Your Own Maps Kit”

Census information Daily summary of news from diverse local and

international sources Briefing papers on various policies, sectors, etc. Laws and regulations Online library of reports and other publications

Maps• Interactive layers• Data sources provided

Census• Census 1998• Census 2008• Economic Census 2011

Online library Tons of publications and reports

• Website: www.OpenDevCam.net• Twitter: @OpenDevCam• Facebook: OpenDevCam• E-mail: contact@opendevcam.net

Who Are Using

And Resources Provided On ODC?

Journalists• Think of Cambodia before you add sugar to your coffee - The Guardian

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• As the Internet Raises Civic Voices In Cambodia, a Struggle Brews Over Net Control – TechPresident

• DATA JOURNALISME - Open Developpement Cambodia : les développeurs du développement - Lepetit Journal

• Development and Its Discontent – International OpEd – The New York Time. (Julia Wallace is a managing editor of The Cambodia Daily.)

NGOs• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights

in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedhi - UNOHCHR (September 24, 2012)

• Global Capital, Local Concessions: A Data-Driven Examination of Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging Market Economies, Rights and Resources Institute, The Munden Project Ltd, 2013

• Suggested Resources, Mekong River Commission

• The Land Matrix, International Land Coalition

Bloggers• Lies, Damn Lies and Maps – on Manago Map

• Hatred of ‘the Other’: Cambodia, Racism and Ultra Nationalism, by Jeff Mudrick (November 05, 2013) - on Khmer440

Businesses• Broad Gate Plantations –

Economic Land Concessions

• Euro Camlux Invest Co., LTD. (E.C.I) Cambodia – Investment Opportunities

• B2B Magazines – news summaries referral and site referral on the annual magazines.

• SNL Metal Economics Group – Mining Data: Currently cover Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Tanzania and is continuously adding countries to the map. ODC mining data will be visualized on SNL interactive map soon.

What Will You Do With

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Data-driven Journalism Training

• When: January 20 – 31, 2014• Where: Phnom Penh, Cambodia• Trainers:

Mirko Lorenz Andreas Giefer Wilfred Runde

• Participants: Cambodian journalists, citizen journalists, IT or social media specialists, journalism students and journalism trainers.

Data-driven Journalism Training

BENEFITS:• learn how to use social media, publicly

available data sources and digital data journalism tools professionally;

• find, filter and visualize data relevant to their reporting;

• employ data-journalism instruments to increase the impact of their journalistic or human rights work.

Data-driven Journalism Training

APPLICATIONS REQUIREMENTS:• Be a citizen of Cambodia;• Work as a journalist, citizen journalist, IT- or

social media specialistwith 2 – 10 years of professional experienceor be a journalism student or trainer;

• Show strong interest in data-driven journalism;• Bring a lap-top or tablet computer;• Have excellent knowledge of English.

Data-driven Journalism Training

APPLICATION MATERIALS:• 1 Call for Applications • 2 Project Outline • 3 Application Form• 4 Employers Declaration Form

MORE INFO:http://onmedia.dw-akademie.de/english/?p=16645http://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/blog_page/

Thank You!