Most people would agree that the inter­pret­a­tion and present­a­tion of data is cru­cial to the future of journ­al­ism online and off. And among the world’s biggest gen­er­at­ors of data are democracies.

So how should a demo­cratic gov­ern­ment make its data avail­able to journ­al­ists? And in what form?

Should it take the oppor­tun­ity to bypass the media and provide data dir­ect on the day of a pub­lic announce­ment, for who­so­ever sees fit to sort and parse?

Or should there be priv­ileged access under embargo, to organ­iz­a­tions and indi­vidu­als who can help inter­pret this data for the wider pub­lic? In the ver­nacu­lar — journ­al­ists. Con­tinue read­ing →