how to catch (data) journalists in two lessons?€¦ · techniques to connect stories about...

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How to catch (data) journalists

in two lessons?● Jean-William Angel

User analytics & Communication unit

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Prelude

3/ INSEE is beginning his reflection4/ what do YOU (NSI) do?→ let’s talk about it in Milan

1/ journalists = natural transmitters of our statistics2/ data-journalists = super-natural transmitters?

How to catch… in two lessons

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DefinitionClassificationIdentification01

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Definition - Classification - Identification

According to Google image, they look like this:

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DJ FC (fact checker)

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1st conclusion: they can be defined by their screen ;-)J one screenDJ many screens FC bigger screen



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Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities. American press institute

Data journalism can enrich traditional reporting techniques to connect stories about individuals to broader social, economic and political phenomena. Data journalism handbook 2



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gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information.

Data journalism connect stories about individuals to broader phenomena.

a posteriori fact checking is the investigative process consisting in :1 extracting claims from some discourse,2 searching for the facts the claims are based on,3 assessing the accuracy of the claim with regards to those backing facts, and4 providing perspective to claims for which there is no straightforward settlement.



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sourcesdatafacts

Definition - Classification - IdentificationHow to catch… in two lessons

2d conclusion: they all need us to check/assess

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JDJ

telling stories

FC to be told stories



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JDJFC

to be

given stories



3d conclusion: we can only give elements of their stories and guidelines



More about DJ: they are involved in visualization


Source: Datadrivenjournalism.net

Often, they produce CHARTICLES




2 examplesof charticles

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✔ The identification question comes up with the DJ✔ FC are better and better identified as such


or ?or


or ?or


Fact check EU was created in March 2019

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✔ The identification comes up with the DJ✔ FC are better and better identified as such✔ Fortunately, DJ often make infographics ✔ The others are… journalists


or ?or


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What we do at INSEE:No survey but a one by one pick when✔ they tell us (demand for data)✔ we spot them through

➢ their organization charts or mastheads➢ our press review


or ?or


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Feed themGo and get them02


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Feed them - Go & Get themHow to catch… in two lessons

Time for breakfast

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Breakfast ✔ Costs and lasts less than a lunch✔ Is informal✔ Gets you closer to the journalists

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On the menu:Methodology for Dummies in a press pack✔ advanced indicators (GDP, Unemployment, CPI,

poverty)✔ new 2014 national accounts basis

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Organize close encounters...

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Organize close encounters with the 1st “type”

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INSEE Managing Director

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You can make it also with 2d o 3rd “types” :-)

Heads of Economic Forecasts dpt National Accounts dpt

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But prepare them to answer

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Time for healthy food

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A few years ago Last year This yearMore and more digestible press packs

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More and more digestible press release

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And it works! (sometimes :-)

Our tweet was reproduced inside the article. It contents the press release of the short term quarterly forecasts.

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Prepare special recipes

✔ Bibliography special Yellow jackets for the use of journalists

✔ Understand the purchasing power calculation


Open the (White) doors

Feed them - Go & Get them

INSEE new building, “Le White”


Open the doors = make (data) journalists✔ understand how we work ✔ how our website works (yes it does :-)

Feed them - Go & Get them

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Call them

Some journalists do not know that we exist :-(or that we could help them

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Call them

For the (annual) census, we called magazines dedicated to young people...

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… and it worked!

The census in the youth press

6-10 year old 10-13 year old

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Send your activity report...

… or any useful publication

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8 images (+1)for a wrap-up


We identify DJ Provide experts, Digestible food, Special recipes

8 images

Help, Call, Send,

AND...


AND...

we do not forget the

8 images

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+1How to catch… in two lessons

Nota Bene: all of this is useless when there is such news

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Thank you for your attentionand many thanks

to Marie-Paule & Faustine

AND NOW,

WHAT DO YOU DO?

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