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In authoritarian China, where journalism is under censorship and access to information is limited, doing data-driven journalism means extra challenges. However, China's data journalists seem to have been dancing with chains. Data journalism is increasingly an effective vehicle for news media to tell stories with complexity, unveil the truth, and uphold social justice. It is commonly agreed that professional data journalism practice in China started with the Internet native media. In March 2011, the website sohu.com launched a new column entitled "The Figures." Its first datadriven report, "Fiscal Revenue: Financial Sample of the System of Tax Distribution," features data visualizations that play a key role in the report. Another Internet native media, netease.com, followed by starting up a new section in its News Channel called "Data Blog" 1 in January 2012. In this section, nearly every report uses colorful charts in various styles along 1 http://data.163.com/

Author

Roselyn Du

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030251765

Subjects

Language Learning, Science, Computer Science