How Do You Make Data Journalism and Visualization Work Harder in Telling Your Stories?

Data journalism is here to stay and data visualization is evolving. 2015 is the year when we move beyond data visualization.So far, decision makers have focused too much on the aesthetics of data and not enough on the information it yields.The key challenge is really about making sure your readers can understand the depth of what you report. Datasets are getting larger, but ploughing through this data to create sophisticated news pieces is becoming more manageable with new software and technologies.

The Afghan War Diary is a collection of internal Military logs released by WikiLeaks in 2010. It brought the top news agencies in Journalism together to report on the more than 91,000 documents leaked and presenting them in a way that would engage their readers.News agencies were given a raw Excel sheet with over 90,000 incorrectly formatted rows of data, and had to create a method for analyzing, summarizing and curating the data in a way to develop the story for their audience.

In 2009, The Guardian launched their Datablog, which gave a great breakdown of managing data journalism. The New York Times and Google have also been lauded for creating interactive visualizations to help present information in an invigorating way. How about in the event of a crisis or emergency? How can you better manage the big data sets and then efficiently produce interactive visualizations and data journalism when the news is breaking?

At Digital Journalism World 2015, our speakers will give you their insights into making data journalism work for you.

Find out how to use raw data to magnificent visualizations for your news audience when news is breaking. Understand the software you can use to turn data into stories, effective data visualization strategies you can incorporate into your newsroom, and how you can use data to make stories personal to your readers.

Martin Stabe, the Head of Interactive News at the Financial Times, will discuss the role of interactivity and data journalism. “Interactivity, meanwhile, allows us to tell complex stories by guiding readers through the many ways of viewing the large data sets that increasingly form the basis of important journalism.” At the Digital Journalism World summit this May, he will talk about data visualization strategies that can help the newsroom, along with team development and case-study visualizations on the elections coverage by the Financial Times.

Digital Journalism World 2015, Asia’s most important news media summit,will feature an impressive panel of presenters from major news media organizations such as CNN Digital, Huffington Post, BBC News, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Cambodia, Daily Google and Yahoo to deliberate the industry’s hottest issues and key trends impacting the way news is gathered and shared.

There has never been a more exciting time than this. With new methodology and technology for news reporting available, the newsroom can be better equipped for exciting coverage of the news by integrating life reporting with video streaming and live blogging.

The summit will cover key themes of:

• -Data driven stories
• -Open source intelligence for covering crises
• -Data visualizations and infographics
• -Social sharing and publishing
• -Strategies for mobile engagements with younger audiences
• -Wearables, bots and virtual reality in news reporting
• -Engaging the community and managing trolls

The summit will feature a top-notch panel of speakers:

• Martin Stabe, Head, Interactive News, Financial Times
• Ethan Klapper, Senior Social Media Editor, The Huffington Post
• Robin Moroney, Communications Manager, Google
• EtanHorowitz,Senior Mobile Editor, CNN Digital
• Adam Najberg, Asia Digital Editor, Wall Street Journal
• Tim Pool, Director of Media Innovation & Senior Correspondent, Fusion
• Ryan O’Connor, Creative Director, News Online, BBC News
• Andy Carvin, Editor-in-Chief, Reported.ly, First Look Media
• Greg Barber, Director Digital News Projects, The Washington Post
• Hille van der Kaa, Professor, Future Media, Fontys School of Applied Sciences
• Joshua Wilwohl, Online Editor, The Cambodia Daily
• James A. Neufeld, Founder & CEO, SAM
• Mar Cabra, Data Journalism Manager, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
• Mark Johnson, South-East Asia correspondent, The Economist
• Robb Montgomery, CEO, Visual Editors, Founder, Smart Film School, Berlin Germany
• Mat Yurow, Associate Director, Audience Development, The New York Times
• EsaMakinen, Data and Interactives Editor, HelsinginSanomat
• Marc Lourdes, Yahoo News Digest
• Adam Najberg, Asia Digital Editor, The Wall Street Journal
• Jim Roberts, Chief Content Editor, Mashable

Meet Asia’s news media professionals from editorial team, digital editors, news producing and news design teams, social media and mobile strategies teams. Get more information at www.djwsummit.com

Digital Journalism World Summit 2015 is organized by Asher Russell Events Pte Ltd, the organizer of Native Advertising Summit, Interactive News Design, and the Digital Journalism World series.

For more info to attend the event, please contact us at email: marketing-55@asher-russell.com