Introduction

The Power of Data

Lives are lived online now more than ever. People date, play, publish, shop and share online. The more they live online, the more data we have about how people behave. Open data is considered a public service. The World Bank opened up their data in 2011, the OECD is publishing their databases online more frequently than before, and even the Myanmar goverment publishes their economic data online. Data is proof and proof is power - it helps the public decide who's right and who's wrong. So how can journalism harness this power?

Multimedia

Telling good stories is a more complicated craft these days. Competition is not just the other newspaper in the town, it's everything that might take up your target audience's time. You are competing with online shopping, video games and social networks. The good news is, the tools to make good and engaging stories are cheaper and more portable than ever.

Workshop Outline

• Breaking news with data
• Investigative reports with data
• Crowdsourcing data
• Data toolkit for journalists
• Visualizing data
• Using photos, audio, graphis, animations, video & interactivity
• Multimedia toolkit for journalists
• Morning news meeting simulation - how to add multimedia to your thinking
• Planning for multimedia components
• Understanding your audience's online behaviour and develop a need-finding process
• Usability testing
• Developing goals and measuring succcess