Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF MEHMET AKIF ERSOY UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES FACULTY, cilt.8, sa.1, ss.171-196, 2021 (ESCI)
Data journalism is one of the most important fields where making news practices has changed. It creates a news story by collecting, picking, analyzing, and visualizing filters. Data journalism has such opportunities as the speed of access, open data, and transparency that traditional journalism can not supply. However, it contains such negativities as subjectivity and personal data privacy marketing. In this study, the professionals' perspective about what is data journalism, its effects on journalism and whether this is an encouragement for the transparent community or a kind of personal data privacy marketing or not and data journalism concept have been that opened up for discussion by examining debates towards this kind of journalism. In this study, in-depth interviews have been had with the relevant expert journalists and academicians by using a descriptive analysis method. In this context, data journalism is defined as the journalism that uses the data as a source, and the data's positive effects on the field of journalism were emphasized. In findings, it has thought that the data journalism encourages transpassing to the transperant society and there has been seen various perspectives about is it a markets personal data privacy or not.