Reinventing

Re-Inventing Journalism at Myanmar?

Peter VerweijYangon Myanmar

May 2016

After the census the UNFPA started with a journalism programme for capacity building

The core element is working with credible data, starting with census data

Census data is used start a training in data journalism, aiming at enhancing quality of reporting and training data Journalism trainers(ToT)

We showed some of the results and of course hope data journalism will become a new routine in various Newsrooms. Here is the complete overview of topics

About the UNFPA Census Data

Name Subject

Mr Zaw HtikeMs Aye Aye Zin

Water distribution Yangon

Mr Thit Nay Moe Unemployment Myanmar

Mr Su Myat WaiMs Lae Lae Thin

Ownership housing Yangon

Ms Aye Thida Kyavv Electricity consumption Yangon

Mr Aung Kyaw ZinMr Than Htike Aung

Disability Iyyawardy

Mr Ni ToeMs Lamung Lu Seng

Employment Yangon

Ms Myat Su Man Sanitation Rakhine

Ms Yin Saning Life expectancy in Mon

Mr Zaw Kham Hein House ownership in Nay Pyi Taw

The Guardian over Riots and Poverty

Simon Rogers:- free software- open data- checking power elite

Steve Doig:- Social science done on deadline

Philip Meyer:- Precison journalism: using the tools of science to improve reporting

WHAT IS YOUR CONCLUSION?

Data Journalism is already 50 years oldPhilip Meyer: 1968 Detroit Riots; Dem Convention; using IBM mainframe: Precison Journalism: using the tools of science to improve reporting

1990 PC using spreadsheets, databases, maps: CARR Drunken driving Doig: Hurricane Andrew

2000 turned into set skills: xls gis scrape crack pdf mappingData Journalism data driven journalism ddj

Open data movement ‘Social science done on deadline’

Data Journalism Made Easy- Skills were important but made DDJ expensive and slow for day today production

- Services for DDJ on the web: Datawrapper; Localfocus, Cartodb

for graphs and maps

- Open data, create apps for accessing data

- Projects: skills still needed and visualization D3

Why data journalism?

•From print to online•From text to multimedia production•From news to background, analysis, investigations and features•Looking for a new business model and for a new journalist•http://www.economist.com/node/18904136

News is Everywhere for Free -Users do not primarily focus on news; they scan Google News, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter;- Journalism has died together with the crisis in the media/newspaper business - Media: newspapers/TV reinvent through extras to the news: background, analysis, features and data project: Upshot- The business model: attract readers from online to print

Pick up journalism tradition in ademocratic society

Informing the public

Adding to transparency of decision making

Credible data

Re-Inventing Journalism at Yangon?

Re-Inventing 2

Enhancing quality of reporting

Using modern technology: online and mobile

Re-Inventing 3 census data

Census data=credible data

Stories in the data on the union level

Stories by comparing regions

Stories Inside regions

Re-Inventing 4 census dataStories comparing Myanmar with neighbors

Journalist have to dig in to these data and turn them into stories

About for example: disability, life expectancy, water, sanitation, housing child labor

I am looking forward to these stories.

Thank you very much!

Drs Peter Verweij [email protected]: www.d3-media.nl

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