3 golden rules for data journalism in a local newsroom 1. Training - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• 1. Training

Centrale Coordination -> a central team to manage datasets, tools and dataviz for local newsrooms Collaboration -> Multi-title projects

3 golden rules for data journalism in a local newsroom

L ’Italia delle slot

How many slot machines (and not only this) are there in our Italian cities? You can check with an interactive website, and a local investigative reporting for each local newspaper of Gedi Gruppo Editoriale Investigative reporting

L ’Italia delle slot

• 1. A collaborative project (Visual Lab + Dataninja +

EffeCinque + 14 local titles + 2 national titles)

• 2. A FOIA to get the dataset
• 3. A big table in ten thousand pdf pages
• 4. Now a shared google spreadsheet
• 5. 13 regional abstracts written by a central newsroom for the

13 local newsroom

• 6. Dataviz realized centrally for all
• 7. Local investigative reporting

Use data to tell a story!

Broadband gap

Broadband gap: how fast is your Internet connection?

• A datajournalism article (with the official

dataset)

• A website
• A collaborative reporting with our readers:

They sent to the Messaggero Veneto about 200 speed tests

• A public event with the mayor, internet

companies and readers