MEDIA

 
There is a lot of activity in the data-journalism space, specifically regarding new forms of analytical usage of data as a basis for reporting.
 
One part of the development is a discussion about how the stack of technologies and tools that would enable journalists to use data as a basis for reporting might look like. For anyone interested in this, there is an excellent roundup of the status-quo, published on O'Reilly Radar: 
 
What are the next steps?
Just one quote from Brian Boyer, who won funding in the Knight Foundation News Challenge with project "Panda". 
 
Quote:

"Boyer thinks the trends toward big data in media are pretty clear, and that he and other hacker journalists can help their colleagues to not only understand it but to thrive. "There's a lot more of it, with government releasing its stuff more rapidly," he said. "The city of Chicago is dropping two datasets a week right now. We're going for increased efficiency, to help people work faster and write better stories. Every major news org in the country is hiring a news app developer right now. Or two. For smaller news organizations, it really works for them. Their data apps account for the majority of their traffic." (Source: Data Journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack) 

Link:
Alex Howard, "Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack" - O'Reilly Radar, July 5, 2011