Research On The Practice And Development Path Of Data Journalism In China’s New Media Platforms

Impelled by the "big data" fever, there is a “data journalism” fever appeared in our county’snews media field. However,“data journalism” is an emerging field in China，which is in theembryonic stage of development. Whether in the theoretical research or in the practice isrelatively weak，which makes the study of data journalism is very necessary. This article treat“data journalism”，which mingling several subject such as journalism, visual communication,computer science, visualization, as the research object, then this study is going to unfold fromtwo aspects respectively: the theory and the practice.Firstly, sort out and discriminate the existing concepts to find the consensus, so we canfurther clarify the meaning of data journalism. Then, choose《The New York Times》and《Guardian》which are more mature in the practice of data journalism for case analysis，byanalyzing their data journalism practice in the new media platforms to see the development ofdata journalism in the world. Thirdly, select Net Ease’s “Shudu”, Caixin’s “Shuzishuo” and“Baidu” as the research case, to study their practice of data journalism and to compare with theworld’s present status of development, so we can find the problems and deficiency in the datajournalism practice in China. Finally, integrate China’s special national conditions and newssystem at the base of draw lessons from the West’s experience, to put forward some localizedmeans, so we could find a development path which fits our national condition.