Talk:Analytic journalism

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Weak and repetitive lead[edit]

Analytic journalism is a field of journalism that seeks to make sense of complex reality in order to create public understanding.

It combines aspects of investigative journalism and explanatory reporting.

Analytic journalism can be seen as a response to professionalized communication from powerful agents, information overload, and growing complexity in a globalised world.

It aims to create evidence-based interpretations of reality, often confronting dominant ways of understanding a specific phenomenon.

It is distinctive in terms of research practices and journalistic product.

At times, it uses methods ??? from social science research.

The journalist gains expertise on a particular topic, to identify a phenomenon that is not readily obvious.

At its best, investigative journalism is deeply analytic, but its intent is primarily to expose.

Analytic journalism's primary aim is to explain.

It contextualizes its subject by describing background, historical details and statistical data.

The goal is a comprehensive explanation that shapes audience perception of the phenomenon.

Analytic journalism aspires to collect disparate data and make connections that are not immediately apparent.

Its effectiveness is often in the analysis between the facts rather than the facts themselves and is critically engaged with other arguments and explanations.

In this way, analytic journalists attempt to give a deeper understanding of an issue.

Seek, aim, goal, aspire, attempt. I'm almost winded. — MaxEnt 01:19, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sources? Notability?[edit]

I don't get this. According to Wikipedia:Notability, "Wikipedia articles cover notable topics—those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not outside the scope of Wikipedia. We consider evidence from reliable independent sources to gauge this attention...."

The sources for this article seems to be a web site that hasn't been updated since 2005, a handful of journalism books (also dating back to 2008) that I can't find any reviews for, and don't seem to be particularly notable themselves.

In contrast, "interpretative reporting" was the subject of a prominent book by Curtis D. MacDougall that was used in journalism schools all over the country (and probably the world), many articles https://www.google.com/search?rls=ig&q=site%3Acjr.org+interpretative+reporting&oq=site%3Acjr.org+interpretative+reporting , and many discussions among journalists and journalism courses.

I don't want to rain on somebody else's parade, but I don't see how this entry meets WP standards.

In fact, I can't even find any WP sources that I could use to make this entry notable. I wish somebody else would come along and try.

I'm not going to call for its deletion, but if a deletionist comes along, it would be very hard to defend.

Sorry for the negativity, but I was brought up by editors like that. --Nbauman (talk) 02:49, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]