Dağ: Open data tools are in the rise but not really from Turkish developers or available in Turkish
Open Data in Europe and Asia | Interview with Pınar Dağ, co-founder of the first Data Driven Media Organisation, Dağ Medya and the first Data Driven Journalism Training Portal Veri Gazeteciliği
“Data helps to make reports more transparent and also helps create trust between you and readers amid the media ‘misinformation’ that we suffer from today.”
“Media owners, editors, and reporters need to follow this new trend because global digital media is changing every day. Media organizations need to give regular data journalism training and must include different professional skills into their newsrooms.”
Open data tools are in the rise but not really from Turkish developers or available in Turkish. We need some local coders to make these data tools in Turkish, and make them for minimal cost or even free so that these tools become accessible and easy to use.
Open data culture should be developed in Turkey for Data Driven Journalism, and the government ministries need to start opening their databases for public use and ease of access to mirror other countries.
Classic journalism is still important but we must follow and import this new discipline of journalism into our newsrooms to build stronger and more transparent news storytelling for the readers.
This will make governments work harder and make it difficult to hide the truth from the public, all by using data-driven journalism.