“The Knight Foundation noted in a blog post announcing the 16 winners that data and the use of it for journalism was a big theme among this year’s contestants. When the Knight competition first started five years ago, the idea of a “hacker/journalist” who developed applications and journalistic tools around data was unfamiliar one, but the foundation noted that this is now an established position at some media outlets.”
This is just great. This year is certainly turning out to be the year of Big Data coming on the scene – folks are finding all sorts of angles and insights in their own areas. This article lists a bunch in journalism.
