| The arrival of age of big data has changed People’s mode of production, ways of life and patterns of thinking, as well as played an important part in difference areas, such as journalism. The impact on journalism by the age of big data is embodied in the rising of data journalism. Data journalism is a new-type news report along with the coming of big data which has been a whole new field in journalism. Data journalism has overturned traditional ways of production mode of journalism and which has brought about the journalism that is in trouble and dilemma with vitality.A few years ago, some well-known media from western countries has explored data journalism, such as The Guardian, BBC, and New York Times, and those media has created a typical of good data journalism. Through several years of practice, these media has accumulated a rich store of theoretical as well as practical experiences and their news product from data journalism are becoming comparatively mature. However, the exploration in data journalism is quite later in domestic. C urrently, data journalism in domestic is on the stages of exploring and learning from overseas. It is necessary for news product of data journalism to improve its level of content as well as visualization and traditional news media began to attach importance to data journalism. Up to now, there is still not so much research effort has been given in data journalism by domestic scholars and professionals, and it is still many blanks need to be filled in this field. Therefore, this thesis will be an important part of the research in this field.By sorting and analyzing the existing data and classic cases at home and abroad, the paper summarizes the background, concept, characteristic, revolution history and current developing situation of data journalism and deeply analyzes the revolution of data journalism, compared with traditional news, on the present form of news and the production process of news from news datamation, data visualization and other perspectives. By combining theory with cases, it elaborates the revolution of data journalism to media industry from macro perspectives, as well as proposes suggestions and expectations for the data journalism development produced problems and the future prospect.In this paper, it holds that b ig data is a double-edged sword and data journalism also has advantages and disadvantages. As the coming of data journalism era, media industry shall also face the defects and shortcomings existing in data journalism meanwhile embracing the progress and revolution brought about by data journalism to the industry, as well as try to make it up to the greatest extent in the future development. No matter seen from the perspectives of law and society or the perspectives of theory and practice, big data brings about revolution to media ecological environment as well as many challenges to news media. In short, data news is the inevitable result and irresistable trend of news media industry developing in big data era. News media can only face the wave of revolution brought about by big data technology, open eyes, consider the situation, rationally treat data, fully use big data technology and contribute itself to a better media ecological environment. |
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