1st Edition

Analytical Journalism A Guide to Science-based Explanatory Journalistic Practice

By Flemming Svith Copyright 2024
222 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Responding to an increasingly complex and often contradictory barrage of news information, Analytical Journalism offers a first-of-its-kind guide to this emerging form of science-based journalism. Posited as a practical alternative to other more traditional forms of event-driven news reporting, analytical journalism relies on metatheory and methodology to highlight causal factors such as... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The analytical journalism approach

Chapter 3: The framework for causal explanation

Chapter 4: The strategy for mapping causes in media coverage

Chapter 5: The strategy for generating causal hypotheses

Chapter 6: The strategy for justifying causal explanation

Chapter 7: The strategy for convincing issue frames

Chapter 8: Guidelines, best practice criteria and learning tools

Index

Biography

Flemming Svith is a senior researcher in journalism and director of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. He holds a PhD in social sciences, an MA in history and a BA in journalism. He is interested in journalism, knowledge production, media and democracy and focuses on advanced journalism, first as a practitioner, then a developer of data journalism and later as an academic researcher.