A brief explanation of structured journalism

1. Bill Adair
Duke University/PolitiFact
Structure is the
Future of Journalism

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

3. 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

4. The old way
Data field
Data field

5. Structured journalism
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Data field

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