1. Bill Adair
Duke University/PolitiFact
IJF15
Perugia, Italy
Structure is the
Future of Journalism

2. Panel
• Laura Amico, Boston Globe
• Chris Amico, Frontline
• Alexios Mantzarlis, Pagella Politica,
FactCheckEU

3. Structured journalism
reimagines the news story
and breaks it into
component parts, giving
more flexibility to journalist
and reader.

4. Structured journalism
reimagines the news story
and breaks it into
component parts, giving
more flexibility to journalist
and reader.

5. Structured journalism
• Each story/entry has many fields
• Allows the narrative or characters
to be organized and described
many ways
• Allows sorting, tallying of stories
• Puts the reader in charge

6. The old way
Data field
Data field

7. Structured journalism
Data field Data fieldData field
Data field
Data field
Data field Data fieldData field
Data field

8. The data fields allow you to present
your journalism in new ways

12. Using structured
journalism to track
a politician’s
promises

16. Rule 46
• Idea of Duke student Ryan Hoerger
• Demonstration project by Duke
Reporters’ Lab
• Structured news site on athletes
charged with crimes
• Goal: allow readers to see crime
news in different ways

18. Structured Stories NYC
• Idea of David Caswell of Structured
Stories
• Duke students will cover New York
City government and politics
• Structured news on City Hall,
politicians, controversies
• Goal: allow readers to see local
news in different ways

20. http://www.structuredstories.com