Abstract
In Russia, data journalism is a topic discussed both in newsrooms and in academia. Absence of relevant practices means absence of relevant theoretical framework. Addressing this conceptual gap, this chapter discusses the results of the survey of data-driven Russian media practices to answer the question about the main features and the subject of data-driven journalism as it is in Russian media. The chapter focuses on quantitative methods of content analysis of the leading Russian media to describe the subject of data-driven journalism. The main features of development of data journalism in Russia will be presented as a result of content analysis of publications of seven leading Russian newspapers and magazines (2014–2016) and discussed by media experts to specify Russian data journalism (2016–2018). Data journalism in Russia as a maturing field is a litmus test for maturity of not only journalism, but also the national media system, the state and the civil society.
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In 2013, the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of June 7, 2013 № 112-FZ on Amendments to the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection and the Federal Law on Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-government Bodies was published. The law contains a set of amendments to Federal Law № 8-FZ of February 9, 2009 on providing access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies and to the federal law of July 27, 2006, №149-FZ on information, information technologies and on the protection of information that data should be published in open data formats. Also, the Government of the Russian Federation provides a list of those data that should be published first (dated July 10, 2013 № 1187-r).
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Data Journalism Manual (2017) // Open Data in Europe and Central Asia, ODECA. Available at: http://www.odecanet.org/data-journalism-manual/
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Shilina, A., Shilina, M. (2019). Towards Data Journalism in Russia?. In: Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S., Borges-Rey, E. (eds) Data Journalism in the Global South. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25177-2_10
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