Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

A Study in Quantitative Reporting

AvAlessandro Martinisi,Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality. This is a task, in our view, that is urgent in times of ‘post-truth’ politics and the rise of ‘fake news’. In this sense, the quest to produce ‘quality’ news, which seems to require incorporating statistics and engaging with data, as laudable and straightforward as it sounds, is instead far more problematic and complex than what is often accounted for.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-29
Mått:153 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Anthem Press
ISBN:9781785275333

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Alessandro Martinisi is Lecturer at the Academy for Digital Entertainment in the Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands.Jairo Lugo-Ocando is Professor in Residence and Director of the Graduate School at Northwestern University in Qatar.

Recensioner i media

Martinisi and Lugo-Ocando’s detailed empirical study of data-driven crime and health news coverage in mainstream British papers confirms that “Big Data” is no panacea for achieving “Quality Journalism”. As their book’s wide-ranging literature review shows, this neoliberal fallacy about methods of math enlightenment in the “Infosphere” reaches back to Condorcet’s “Social Mathematics” as a hallmark of the liberal faith during the French Revolution. — Michael Hofmann, Professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University, US.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Numbers as information in the Information Society; Chapter 3: The never-ending debate on quality in journalism; Chapter 4: Statistics in journalism practice and principle; Chapter 5: The normative importance of ‘quality’ in Journalism; Chapter 6: Journalism meets statistics in real life; Chapter 7: The ideology of Statistics in the News; Epilogue; References; Index.