Ledes, Nutgraphs, Arguments & Process.

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The real difference between an intelligence agency and a newsroom (besides rendition, assassination and a few other things) is how they manage data. Intelligence analysts incorporate statistical information, demographic information and input from psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, geologists and essentially any resource a state can muster to understand the nature of the world. The end result is top secret.

The public should be provided these same services. The world is awash in data. What it lacks is understanding. The fourth estate is that it is positioned, more than any other entity, to package that information in the most persistent form to human memory: the narrative. And journalists at the forefront understand that more methods of communication only open as the technology improves: visualizations, interactive maps and charts, multimedia, and eventually, virtual environments.

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Matthew Schroyer, Data Journalist.

9.15.2011