Lesson plan

Database journalism

Database journalism or structured journalism is a principle in information management whereby news content is organized around structured pieces of data, as opposed to news stories. Communication scholar Wiebke Loosen defines database journalism as "supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices."

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Article summary

Database journalism or structured journalism is a principle in information management whereby news content is organized around structured pieces of data, as opposed to news stories. Communication scholar Wiebke Loosen defines database journalism as "supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices."

Key claims

  1. release date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "2005". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344631845

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.