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Transcript for
2005 Batten Symposium
and
Awards for Innovations in Journalism
Sept.
12, 2005
National
Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Andrew Nachison
Co-Director, The Media Center at the American Press Institute
This next group represents another iteration
of the transformation of storytelling that we see. We’re living in a highly visual world
and the first group of projects that we looked at really typify the highly
visual nature of journalism that we see emerging. We’re also living
in a world that’s awash in data. We are all database navigators.
We are all database journalists, in a sense, because we all use databases
every day.
The
notion of database journalism, which for a long time was a pretty arcane
specialty for really dedicated investigative journalists that
got the power of numbers, is really evolving in some interesting ways.
This is true not only because we all use databases everyday – we
all search, we all mine for information – but also because the
accessibility of data provides
new
opportunities
for journalism.
This group represents that in some interesting
ways. And yet, as you’ll
see, it’s all highly visual.
I want to jump right into it because
we’ve got three projects
to look at very quickly, and Adrian and Wilson, why don’t we start
by looking at chicagocrime.org.
What I take away from looking at this
project, besides the guts that they’re going to present, is just to think about the accessibility
of data and how dedicated geeks today can do some amazing things with
it. So with that, why don’t we take a look at chicagocrime.org.
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