Study On Data Journalism In The Context Of Big Data

2013is seen as the year when big data began. Due to the rapid data growth and its more openness, big data has a much more obvious influence on all the fields and has been changing our life, work and even thought before we know it, such as the rise of data journalism in News industry. Data journalism is a new field employed by current global news industry to cope with the development and revolution of big data times, which is full subversion to traditional journalism and brings in vigor for this fading industry.Some external media have begun factually to explore data journalism in the past few years. For example, several well-known media like Guardian, New York Times and BBC have produced many excellent data journalism. These foreign media have got rich experience and mature works through the years’ endeavor. However, because of the later start in our country, data journalism is still in an attempt stage and its contents and visual methods also needs improving. Furthermore, a large number of media especially traditional media have less care about it. Until now, data journalism is still a field domestic scholars stepped less in and involves many research gaps, so the study of this paper has an important meaning. The paper, taking ProPublica for example, will explore the routine of external data journalism practice, explain its producing process in detail through some relevant works and introduce methods and tools for data collection, analysis and visualization, which has a high practicability. Finally, the paper will make a research on the present situation of domestic data journalism, find its weakness against the external one and provide related advice for its development in accordance with foreign experience.