The Guardian’s data journalism branch Datablog produces journalism that mostly adheres to traditional journalistic norms, write Edson C. Tandoc Jr., of Nanyang Technological University and Soo-Kwang Oh, of William Paterson University. The authors looked at Datablog’s output from over six years, and conducted content analysis on a randomized sample of it. The authors looked at … Continued

New article by Carina Jacobi, Wouter van Atteveldt and Kasper Welbers introduces a relatively recent tool for quantitative analysis, Latent Dirichlet Analysis. LDA is an unsupervised topic modelling technique that automatically creates “topics”, that is, clusters of words, from a collection of documents. In this article the scholars demonstrate its usefulness for journalism research. The study shows that LDA … Continued

Huge amounts of digital content are produced every day. The constant information flow have set new challenges not only for journalism but also journalism scholars. How to describe and analyze the wealth of information? ask Elisabeth Günther and Thorsten Quandt in their newly published study. They claim that in order to describe and analyze this wealth of information, journalism … Continued