Research On Data News Production Based On Chinese Big Four Websites

Today,big data has penetrated into all aspects of our lives.In the field of news,there has also been a new way of reporting-data news.Data journalism is based on data and uses data to "tell stories." Foreign media began producing such news as early as the 1980 s.The "Data Blog" section of the British "Guardian" can be said to be the leader of such news in the industry.In comparison,domestic data news production practice is still on the road to exploration.This study is based on the websites that have already launched data news production in China.Soho,Sina,Netease,and Xinhua.com have been selected.The data news sections of these four major websites are the main research objects and they are devoted to studying the four major websites.Data news production.In the research process,mainly through the analysis of the current production status,from the four major web site data news production process to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each and found the problems in production.In order to provide better and more targeted analysis of the reasons and propose countermeasures,this article uses preliminary ideas and attempts to construct a simple set of evaluation criteria.Using this evaluation criteria,combined with a large number of case studies,a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the data production of the four major websites was conducted,and the reasons for the problems of the four major websites in their respective data news production were identified,including news.Values,data sources,visualizations,etc.Finally,according to the evaluation results,the author discussed the author's thinking and comprehension on the data production of the four major websites,including the excessive pursuit of update frequency and the lack of standards for the section layout.It also further put forward opinions and suggestions for the production of data news in our future websites.When necessary,the study will also be combined with the "Guardian" "Data Blog" for simple comparison and analysis,in the hope of gaining some good experience and practices.This article is basically a systematic research on the data production of the website data in China.The ultimate goal of the research is to provide reference and reference for the production of more outstanding data news in the future.