Открытые данные как ресурс региональной журналистики

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to compare the available regional open data resources and regional projects by using them. Based on existing researches of the open data situation in Russia, it is concluded that, despite the current problems Russia have got the necessary conditions for the widespread implementation of data journalism in practice of media. There are numerous examples of successful cases of this kind of journalism. But in general, opportunities haven't completely materialized. This gap is investigated by the example of Tyumen region. The Tyumen region has sufficiently high position in the transparency rankings of regional authorities. The online platform for publishing open data in Tyumen region is identified and described. Using data published on this platform has been examined by monitoring of rеgional media. A few examples of published media content with the use of datasets published on the government open data platforms were identified. A search of Hyperlinks to the platforms in the project Yandex. News gave zero results. The survey of the Tyumen journalists shows the level of awareness about data journalism and available platforms for publication open data. The most of participants of survey know a few platforms of open data, but they are not aware of the method and tools of data journalism and prefer using data from press-releases, official reports and other products of the data analysis performed by organizations and experts to raw materials. However particular journalists aware about data driven journalism and its tools and use the open data for their articles. We can conclude the underexploitation of resources of open data in Tyumen media. Whereas some particular journalists are capable of using open data, regional media haven't started implementation of data journalism into regular practice yet. All have been due to the short term since the beginning of publication open data on regional platforms. So we can say that regional media has great potential for innovation.

Описываются ресурсы открытых данных региона и подходы к их использованию журналистами, выясняется степень информированности журналистов об имеющихся площадках публикации открытых данных, инструментах работы с данными, готовность редакций к использованию открытых данных.