- High-quality data journalism serves as a powerful tool for unraveling complex environmental issues, transforming raw data into compelling narratives and revealing the stories behind the numbers.
- Ultimately, high-quality data journalism provides citizens, policy makers, and activists with the information they need to make informed decisions and take meaningful action toward environmental sustainability and conservation. Promote. Through in-depth data analysis and creative storytelling, environmental journalism can greatly expand its reach and impact and guide society toward more informed and honest stewardship of the natural world.
- To this end, last month we announced Mongabay Data Studio, which aims to enhance our data journalism capabilities.
- The initiative will support data journalism across all languages, stations and formats in Mongabay, including investigative, news reporting, video and social media visualization. Configured to operate across topics and geographies, it enables comprehensive data journalism integration across all operations. The goal is to improve storytelling by incorporating and leveraging more data as the building blocks for new stories.
High-quality data journalism serves as a powerful tool for unraveling complex environmental issues, transforming raw data into compelling narratives and revealing the stories behind the numbers. By employing rigorous data collection and analysis, journalists can uncover trends and patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed, providing a solid foundation for investigative reporting.
But how can we transform this data into more accessible stories?
Visual tools like infographics and interactive maps bring these statistics to life, making abstract concepts concrete and accessible to a wider audience. This not only strengthens public understanding but also fosters participation by showing the direct impact of environmental change on individual lives and communities. Furthermore, data-driven stories can bridge the gap between scientific research and public debate, turning dense and complex findings into understandable and relevant content.
Ultimately, high-quality data journalism provides citizens, policy makers, and activists with the information they need to make informed decisions and drive meaningful action toward environmental sustainability and conservation. Promote. Through in-depth data analysis and creative storytelling, environmental journalism can significantly expand its reach and impact and guide society toward more informed and honest stewardship of the natural world.
Enter Mongabay Data Studio
To this end, last month we announced Mongabay Data Studio (https://studio.mongabay.com/), which aims to enhance our data journalism capabilities. Similar to Bureau, but with broader, cross-cutting capabilities, Data Studio supports data journalism (investigations, news reporting, video, social media visualization, etc.) across all languages, bureaus, and formats in Mongabay To do.
Mongabay Data Studio is structured to work across a variety of topics and geographies, enabling comprehensive data journalism integration across all operations. The goal is to improve storytelling by incorporating and leveraging more data as the building blocks for new stories.
Mongabay Data Studio will also help you more effectively address gaps in journalism where collected data is underutilized. The research process often yields a wealth of valuable data, but typically only some of it leads to a story. Data Studio lets you create public-facing databases and other tools to take advantage of data that is no longer being used. By making it available on a dedicated platform, we aim to reach a wider audience and expand the impact of Mongabay journalism.
Additionally, Data Studio represents a commitment to improving environmental journalism around the world. This includes a capacity development program aimed at strengthening the data journalism skills of Mongabay’s team and expanding support to the broader environmental reporting community. Simply put, this initiative will improve our internal capabilities while also contributing to the practice of global journalism.
Scaling this work
To ensure effective operations, Data Studio is equipped with a dedicated management structure, outreach capabilities, and visualization capabilities. Outreach allows us to establish new partnerships with different data sources and institutions to incorporate more data into environmental storytelling.
Although we are in the early stages of development, our goal is to grow this team significantly and be able to scale this effort. We are now seeking support to expand this effort and increase contributions to data journalism, both within Mongabay and within the broader journalism community.
Thank you for joining us on this mission to uncover shocking stories from the front lines of nature that are often hidden behind the numbers.
Introducing Mongabay Data Studio: Bridging Environmental Science and Behavior
