Employing data journalism in investigative press coverage of Egyptian websites and its relationship to the development of communication technologies and information technology(A Study on the connector)

Gamal Darwesh Abd Elghafaar, Wafaa

doi:10.21608/jsb.2021.154698

Employing data journalism in investigative press coverage of Egyptian websites and its relationship to the development of communication technologies and information technology(A Study on the connector)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Wafaa Gamal Darwesh Abd Elghafaar

Lecturer of journalism Department of Mass media, Faculty of Specific Education, Zagazig University

10.21608/jsb.2021.154698

Abstract

The study aimed to examine how to employ data journalism in investigative journalistic coverage on Egyptian websites, in addition to identifying the most important programs and tools that Egyptian websites rely on in providing data journalism investigations, as well as the study concerned with discovering the most important skills and requirements that an investigative journalist and data designer need in addition to The challenges facing them, and the study adopted the media survey method and the questionnaire tool for collecting information, and the study reached a number of results, the most important of which are:
1- Investigative journalists emphasized the concept of data journalism that these abstract numbers themselves may not involve a journalistic investigation worth working on, but rather the way to deal with these numbers and try to explain and interpret them in a way that creates data-driven investigations that attract readers' attention.
2- Study results refer to the importance of data journalism and its advantages over any other form of journalism confirmed that its importance increases with the presence of an increasing amount of digital content in the world, and with this flow of data comes the role of an investigative journalist in filtering and analyzing this data, and converting this amount of data Which is worthless to a useful visual journalistic investigation for the reader.
The study recommends:-
1- Websites should employ more data journalism and work to make benefit of it within investigative rooms.
2- Websites should provide training workers in investigative investigation rooms with the concept of data journalism and how to benefit from it in enhancing investigative journalistic content.

Keywords

Main Subjects

Press and publishing

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