Data Journalism: How Big Data-Driven Analytics Improves Newsmaking

You may find the word "data" in the term "data journalism" redundant. After all, newsmaking of any kind, even the tacky, propaganda-driven type, has always relied heavily on data. Earlier, on-set journalists, reporters and data collection teams would scramble to procure information that could then be processed before being presented to the masses. However, this approach had an obvious problem--the disparities between newer real-life developments and published news reports in newspapers or even on electronic media would be vast. Data journalism--newsmaking driven by faster data collection and visualization, traces of which were first witnessed in the US during the 1950s--uses digital tools to simplify data collection.