Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ Skills
Data journalism has recently emerged as an important method of news gathering and editing in journalism. For data journalism -which includes the process of producing news from data- journalists need to have various skills and competencies. As a result of the literature review, it is observed that th...
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2022-12-01
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| description | Data journalism has recently emerged as an important method of news gathering and editing in journalism. For data journalism -which includes the process of producing news from data- journalists need to have various skills and competencies. As a result of the literature review, it is observed that the required skills and competencies for data journalism have not been determined precisely, and in this regard, there is a lack of quantitative studies to measure these skills and competencies of data journalism. This study aims to develop a unique scale that will reveal the data journalism skills of news producers. For this purpose, a data journalism scale has been developed through an online survey applied to news producers registered with the Turkish Press Agency (BIK). As a result of the item pool, expert views, and the scale application stages, it is understood that data journalism skills can be measured with a 2-factor structure: “data skills and tools” and “journalism skills.” The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient for the overall 21-item data journalism scale was calculated as 0.856, the data skills and tools factor as 0.883, and the journalism skill factor as 0.821. As a result of the research, it has been determined that while the journalism skills of the news producers are at a high level, their competence in data processing is low. In this sense -as a result of the study- a revision is recommended in both academic and professional training curriculum to include data collection, analysis and visualization skills that will improve data skills of news producers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e7c6f846b0143f9892f3a78550d41cc2025-08-20T01:56:57Zengİlmi Etüdler Derneği (İLEM)İnsan & Toplum2146-70992602-27452022-12-01124749810.12658/M0666Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ SkillsSeçil Özay0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-8258Serkan Bayrakcı1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3817-1927Marmara UniversityMarmara UniversityData journalism has recently emerged as an important method of news gathering and editing in journalism. For data journalism -which includes the process of producing news from data- journalists need to have various skills and competencies. As a result of the literature review, it is observed that the required skills and competencies for data journalism have not been determined precisely, and in this regard, there is a lack of quantitative studies to measure these skills and competencies of data journalism. This study aims to develop a unique scale that will reveal the data journalism skills of news producers. For this purpose, a data journalism scale has been developed through an online survey applied to news producers registered with the Turkish Press Agency (BIK). As a result of the item pool, expert views, and the scale application stages, it is understood that data journalism skills can be measured with a 2-factor structure: “data skills and tools” and “journalism skills.” The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient for the overall 21-item data journalism scale was calculated as 0.856, the data skills and tools factor as 0.883, and the journalism skill factor as 0.821. As a result of the research, it has been determined that while the journalism skills of the news producers are at a high level, their competence in data processing is low. In this sense -as a result of the study- a revision is recommended in both academic and professional training curriculum to include data collection, analysis and visualization skills that will improve data skills of news producers.https://www.insanvetoplum.org/sayilar/12-4/m0666data journalismdatadata skillsjournalismscale developmentdata journalism scale |
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| title | Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ Skills |
| title_full | Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ Skills |
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| title_short | Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ Skills |
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