Abstract
This article investigates how and why data journalism has evolved in Australia. Using semi-structured interviews with Australian data journalists, we examine how they view their role in news organisations; the structure of Australian data journalism within and beyond Australian newsrooms; and how their practice has changed and the factors that drive this. This study finds that there has been a decline in larger projects and in exploratory dashboards, as well as in the number of active data journalists in Australia. However, there remains a small core of data journalists alongside some moves to normalise data into everyday reporting. This suggests that rather than purely a story of decline, the ways in which data journalism is institutionalised has started to evolve to cope with these changes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1811-1827 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journalism Studies |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Australian journalism
- change in journalism
- computer-assisted reporting
- data journalism
- journalism practice