Journalism and Data

Glyn Mottershead, Cardiff University, UK – ‘This looks to be a very useful book. There are journal articles covering this field but it would be great to see an academic piece of work focussed around interviews and the key arguments… This would be very useful for my students, my focus in very squarely in teaching practice but a systematic look at the field would be of benefit.’

Russell Merryman, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK – ‘there are few publications which analyse data journalism from an academic and theoretical perspective… With appropriate contextualisation, it has the potential to be a key text.’

Fred Vallance-Jones, University of King’s College, Canada – ‘It proposes to take a broad look at the key emerging issues in the field. It doesn’t shy away from addressing theoretical questions. It addresses some of the questions that are often not addressed in more practical volumes on the subject, such as the nature of data and the institutions that control it, and how to hold the institutions accountable… It may be overly theoretical for many mainline journalism courses.’

Ian Reeves, University of Kent, UK – ‘This would be the first genuinely scholarly book that examines the impact that data journalism is having on British journalism. The proposal is well structured and seems to be comprehensive and well-informed in its approach. The combination of professional insight from leading practitioners of data journalism in national and international newsrooms with academic research into the impact that their work is having has the potential to be very interesting.’