How Newsrooms Should Respond to the Data Revolution

By: Kendall McCabe | 06/04/2013

With consumers searching less frequently for stories and expecting the news to find them, newsrooms must adapt their distribution strategies, ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow Justin Arenstein told workshop attendees at the recent World Editors Forum in Bangkok.

His "data revolution in your newsroom" workshop highlighted this and other trends that news outlets should be aware of, and advised newsrooms how they should change in response to the new focus on data. Journalism.co.uk gives an overview of Arenstein’s talk on trends and shares Arenstein’s examples of innovative data journalism.

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