CHAPTER 33
Data Journalism
Uma Shankar Pandey
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
Since its inception, journalism has been grappling with a unique epistemological oddity. At one end, journalism deals with a seemingly modest objective—reporting the news of the day quickly. At the other end, it makes an incredible epistemological claim that it possesses the tools and techniques to find out the precise social reality at any given point.
In the present-day digital ecosystem, there is about 44 zettabytes of data available in the world. This opens a huge range of possibilities. Combined with the traditional ‘nose for news’, the skill to tell a compelling story and the humongous range of digital information available, it is possible to create effective compelling ...
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