{"id":1362,"date":"2012-09-22T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T00:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:44:11","slug":"why-data-matters-according-to-the-knight-news-challenge-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/22\/why-data-matters-according-to-the-knight-news-challenge-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Data Matters, According to the Knight News Challenge Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 11px;padding-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 560px\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1383\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/22\/why-data-matters-according-to-the-knight-news-challenge-winners\/knc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/22\/why-data-matters-according-to-the-knight-news-challenge-winners\/knc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/KNC.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith of Pop Up Archive speak during the Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round. (Katherine Borgerding\/ONA Student Newsroom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/KNC.jpg?w=650\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1383\" src=\"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/09\/KNC-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"Knight News Challenge\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith of Pop Up Archive speak during the Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round. (Katherine Borgerding\/ONA Student Newsroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watch <a title=\"live streaming video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks\">live streaming video<\/a> from <a title=\"Watch ona09frontendsessions at livestream.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/ona09frontendsessions?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks\">ona09frontendsessions<\/a>at livestream.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49450624\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/49450624\">Knight News Challenge: Data Winners<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/knightfdn\">Knight Foundation<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting and displaying data about air quality, sound recordings and elections are just some of the focuses of this year\u2019s winning Knight News Challenge projects.<\/p>\n<p>The six winners, who were announced on Thursday, Sept. 20, presented PowerPoint presentations explaining their projects and goals to fellow journalists during the Online News Association conference\u2019s Lightning Round.<\/p>\n<p>The winners showed the audience their projects\u2019 potential as new, innovative tools for journalists, and described the idea and motivations behind their projects.<br \/>\nThe six winning projects are: Local Data, $300,000; Pop Up Archive, $300,000; Census.IRE.org, $450,000; Safecast Radiation &amp; Air Quality, $400,000; Open Elections, $200,000; OpenStreetMap, $575,000.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q and A with the winners:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alicia Rouault, Local Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> What is Local Data?<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rouault:<\/strong> Local Data is a new digital toolkit that allows community groups of all capacities to collect and manage place-based data online.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> Why do you think data journalism is important?<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rouault:<\/strong> Data is important to journalism, especially from the Local Data perspective, because it allows communities to have a voice in the data they are collecting to then be presented in a much more consumable way.<br \/>\n<strong>Levi Simons, Safecast Radiation &amp; Air Quality<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ONA<\/strong>: What is Safecast Air?<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simons:<\/strong> Our goal is to make an open air-quality monitoring network so that people can record on a real-time basis what is in the atmosphere, and upload that into a public database.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> Why do you think data journalism is important?<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simons:<\/strong> Journalism, just like science, if you don\u2019t have quantitative data, you are arguing over nothing.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> Do you have one piece of advice for journalists who want to incorporate data into what they do?<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simons:<\/strong> Data, like human beings, are all sources. If you don\u2019t cite where it came from, you don\u2019t know where the errors are.<br \/>\n<strong>Bailey Smith, Pop Up Archive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> What is one thing about data that is important to journalism?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith: <\/strong>You have all these great stories, great sounds, but only a fraction of what\u2019s recorded makes it onto the air. The rest of the audio lives in a file somewhere, lots of times just on someone\u2019s personal computer. So there are all these files, some of them living at NPR and say some with The Kitchen Sisters, and if their being described and stored at all, their being described in a different ways. In order to make that material shareable, so that producers can remix and reuse content, we need to start saving and describing that material systematically.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> What is Pop Up Archive?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith:<\/strong>Pop Up Archive makes media searchable, reusable and shareable, without requiring a programmer of an archivist. We use standardized metadata, so that in the future producers and organizations will be able to easily share files online and so that programmers will be able to create applications that use these files. We\u2019re also planning for preservation and distribution. Currently we use the Internet Archive to back up audio and SoundCloud for distribution but in the coming months we\u2019re planning to incorporate other audio sharing services. We\u2019re trying to make this process work with existing workflows, so that producers can integrate archiving seamlessly and so that moving forward we aren\u2019t in a position where these great resources are being underutilized or even getting lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Germuska, Census.IRE.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> What is Census.IRE.org?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germuska:<\/strong> Census.IRE.org aims to make it dead simple for journalists to use census data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> Why do you think data journalism is important?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germuska:<\/strong> I think journalism is best when it\u2019s grounded in facts. Stories bring it to life, but facts make sure there is no leaping to conclusions, and data is a great way to make sure your story is well grounded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONA:<\/strong> Do you have one piece of advice for journalists who want to incorporate data into what they do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germuska:<\/strong> Don\u2019t be afraid of data. Check it out. There are a lot of things making it easier to use all the time. Give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> ONA was unable to interview Derek Willis and Serdar Tumgoren of Open Elections and Eric Gundersen of OpenStreetMap for the Q and A. See the live stream video above for information on their projects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below is a sampling of the social conversation around the presentation:<\/p>\n<p>The six winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data grant presented their project plans and goals at the 2012 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/KatBorgerding\/ona12-knight-news-challenge-data-lightning-round\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> View the story &#8220;ONA12: Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round&#8221; on Storify<\/a><\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/KatBorgerding\/ona12-knight-news-challenge-data-lightning-round\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the story &#8220;ONA12: Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]\n<h1 id=\"ona12-knight-news-challenge-data-lightning-round\">ONA12: Knight News Challenge: Data Lightning Round<\/h1>\n<h2 id=\"the-six-winners-of-the-knight-news-challenge-data-grant-presented-their-project-plans-and-goals-at-the-2012-online-news-association-conference-in-san-francisco\">The six winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data grant presented their project plans and goals at the 2012 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.<\/h2>\n<p>Storified by Katherine Borgerding \u00b7 Sat, Sep 22 2012 17:03:41<\/p>\n<div>Starting now: #newschallenge: data winners present projects at #ONA12 @ONA http:\/\/kng.ht\/SxfV1s Recap of winners here http:\/\/kng.ht\/T4M0ExKnight Foundation<\/div>\n<div>Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12Knight Foundation<\/div>\n<div>Livestream of the #newschallenge winners session at #ONA12 http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/sessions\/lightning-round-knc-data\/Tom Meagher<\/div>\n<div>RT @jsb: If you&#8217;re playing the @digiphile drinking game, @ericg of @developmentseed just made the 1st reference. #ona12 #newschallengewadpaw<\/div>\n<div>RT @knightfdn: Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12Stanley Gauss<\/div>\n<div>RT @cksopher: Coming early 2013 to an Internet near you: @knightfdn #newschallenge on open gov. Prepare. Meditate. Gather your armies. &#8230;Michele Lorito-Chase<\/div>\n<div>RT @cksopher: Coming early 2013 to an Internet near you: @knightfdn #newschallenge on open gov. Prepare. Meditate. Gather your armies. &#8230;RJLozada<\/div>\n<div>RT @safecast: RT @JMizgata: LOVE that high school students and hackers are helping to build @safecast. #newschallenge #ONA12plastic_daruma<\/div>\n<div>RT @cksopher: Coming early 2013 to an Internet near you: @knightfdn #newschallenge on open gov. Prepare. Meditate. Gather your armies. &#8230;Knight Foundation<\/div>\n<div>RT @Dan_CARINO: Sketching #ONA: radiation mapping w @safecast #newschallenge #fukushima http:\/\/instagr.am\/p\/P5EJ5UNWyk\/Than&#8217;s Stellarbot<\/div>\n<div>RT @ultracasual: First theme of next year&#8217;s #newschallenge: tools for open gov&#8217;t!Michael Corey<\/div>\n<div>Top popular tags webtech: 1^ #ONA12 2^ #SGSglobal 3^ #DF12 4^ #iPhone5 5^ #newschallengeTop webtech<\/div>\n<div>RT @knightfdn: Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12Government Robot<\/div>\n<div>RT @darthcheeta: RT @knightfdn: Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12Government Robot<\/div>\n<div>RT @cksopher: Coming early 2013 to an Internet near you: @knightfdn #newschallenge on open gov. Prepare. Meditate. Gather your armies. &#8230;Katie Zhu<\/div>\n<div>RT @knightfdn: Openstreetmap project will make it easier to get data out of the map, make it open and useful &#8211; @ericg #newschallenge #on &#8230;Asociaci\u00f3n Teiis<\/div>\n<div>Coming early 2013 to an Internet near you: @knightfdn #newschallenge on open gov. Prepare. Meditate. Gather your armies. It will be epic.Christopher Sopher<\/div>\n<div>RT @jsb: If you&#8217;re playing the @digiphile drinking game, @ericg of @developmentseed just made the 1st reference. #ona12 #newschallengeYJSOONBOT<\/div>\n<div>RT @knightfdn: Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12David Johnson<\/div>\n<div>RT @knightfdn: Next #newschallenge will focus on tools for #opengov. Get your ideas ready! Opening in 2013. #ona12CIMA<\/div>\n<div>RT @PandaNip: Panda cub at San Diego Zoo gaining weight, still nameless http:\/\/lat.ms\/OLRTVa #newschallenge http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/xBi5cWMpMargaret!<\/div>\n<div>RT @silaslyons_RS: Two tools for data-centric journ: http:\/\/openstreetmap.org, @golocaldata, http:\/\/census.ire.org #ona12 #newschallengeRandolph Smith<\/div>\n<div>MT @knightfdn Next version of http:\/\/census.ire.org will inclAmerican Comm Survey, how-to guides for #journos @joegermuska #newschallengeLaura Newman<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data grant presented their project plans and goals at the 2012 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10509,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[724],"tags":[108,103],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"coauthors":[85],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-innovation","tag-ona12","tag-video-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/KNC.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5Q1c-lY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}