journalism in the digital world - november 2013
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Journalism in the Digital World– presented to CIJ – Nepal8 November 2013Kathmandu, Nepal
“It is the best of times…
Visual storytelling
Data journalism
Civic engagement
“Snowfall” – New York Times
Visual Storytelling
“Water: Asia’s Next Challenge” – The Asia Society
Visual Storytelling
Not everyone is the New York Times.
Journalism and technology collaborations:
New Tools+ Timeline.js+ Meograph+ Piktochart.com+ Ushahidi+ ScrollKit.com
“Rede de Escandalos” – Veja, Sao Paolo
Data Journalism
“Undi.info” – Malaysiakini.com
Data Journalism
Where’s the data? What tools?
Online tools- The Data Journalism Handbook (www.datajournalismhandbook.org)
Data Sources:+ Government Sources (Census, Budget, Social Services)+ NGO Data Sets (UN, World Bank)+ Corporate Sources (Annual Reports)+ Create your own data (citizen contributed)
NREG – SwaraNet.org/MojoLab
Data Collection
IPaidABribe.com – Janaagraha, Bangalore
Civic Engagement
“It is the best of times…
New digital tools and methods of investigation and storytelling
Digital tools find stories in the data
Digital requires:- Technology- Design- Engaged audiences
BUT…
“It is also the worst of times…
Traditional media struggling, limited resources for complex stories
Competition for foundation grants and fellowships increasing
Digital media mostly focused on “breaking news” and opinion
• Advertising• Subscriptions• Purchase –
e*publications
• Grants• Crowd Funded• Syndication
How do we fund investigative journalism?
Funding
Publication
Revenues
Grants – Investigative Journalism Centres
Philippine Center for Investigative
Journalism
ThaiPublica
Media Pre-sale – Syndication
All media companies want good stories
But may not be able to fund them alone
Create networks of media to distribute media for a fee
Media Pre-sale – Syndication
Crowdfunding
KickStarter
Crowdfunding – a global phenomena
Catarse.me - Brazil
M-Changa - Kenya
ZecZec.com - Taiwan
Wishberry - India
Paid Content
Many paid content models emerging, but…
…requirements are not easy to meet:- online payments infrastructure (like paypal, alipay)- or hybrid offline payment, online fulfillment model- online curation and recommendation engines- the major platforms limited to text and illustration
Mobile platforms are helping to solve some problems
Subscription Platforms – The New Breed
ByLiner.com
Subscription Platforms – The Old Guard
the Paris Review
Purchasing Platforms – e*Publishing
Purchasing Platforms – The e*Book Platforms
- Over 5 million sold- Price 99¢ to $2.99- Limited to text narrative- Limited languages
What about advertising?
Growing market, but model requires- Context- Page views
Advertising doesn’t yet provide a premium for engagement
Video may create a model, but still a small part of the global advertising mix
It is both the best and worst of times.
New tools to aid the investigation
New techniques to tell the story and engage the audience
Funding is a challenge+ Matching costs with potential revenues+ Managing multiple revenue streams+ Understanding and implementing the technology
Thank you
Questions?