Impact of Data Journalism on Indian News Websitesand the Rise in Engaging Innovative Practices

摘要

Data journalism is perceived to be a tool for producing better journalism with the help of statistical methods,visualisation and interactive means of presenting information. Big Data has changed the face of journalism with the enormousamount of information being generated in digital media. Data journalism is barely a decade old but the influences on thejournalism practices has transformed the culture of generating news stories. The increased availability of data across theinternet has led to the new dimension of Indian media particularly the online media.This paper aims at indicating the changes that online media has experienced with the rise in innovative reporting, datavisualisation and presentation of news and information. This research emphasises on the journalism practices and technologicalchanges that big data has brought about to journalism in Indian context and how media organizations are dealing with thepresent colossal data.The objective of this paper is to analyse the changing trends in news reporting by usage of ‘big’ data in news rooms and willreflect the trends and the impact of ‘big’ data on cultural and journalistic practices in India and on its readers.News websites like Indiaspend.com, Hindustan Times, First Post to name a few will be taken up as examples to reflect thechanges that the Indian news websites are experiencing.This also paves way to gauge the changes that concerns the news audiences, story forms, news generations, values and ethics.The influences of data in the news values and ethics, the practices of newsrooms and its impact on transformation created ingeneration of online news reports.