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Asia Media Summit 2024

19TH ASIA MEDIA SUMMIT
The Asia Media Summit (AMS) is an annual international media conference organised by AIBD as its flagship event. Every year in consultation with the members, partners and various global media gurus, a theme guides the direction and delivery of the summit. Being a unique broadcasting event in Asia-Pacific, it attracts around 500 top-ranking broadcasters, decision makers, media professionals, regulators, scholars, and stakeholders from within and outside the region. Apart from plenary sessions and pre-summit workshops, Asia Media Summit also provides a platform for intergovernmental dialogues to uplift the benchmarks of the regional media industry.

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May 2016

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News organisations across the globe are increasingly using data journalism to find new and compelling ways of telling stories with numbers and infographics, and make people more engaged with information.

“Data journalism is making the journalism field more exciting and vibrant,” Mr Kevin Anderson, Faculty member of EBU’s Eurovision Training Academy, told participants of the AIBD/Eurovision/CCTV Master Class on Data Journalism held Monday in Incheon, South Korea.

News organisations across the globe are increasingly using data journalism to find new and compelling ways of telling stories with numbers and infographics, and make people more engaged with information.

“Data journalism is making the journalism field more exciting and vibrant,” Mr Kevin Anderson, Faculty member of EBU’s Eurovision Training Academy, told participants of the AIBD/Eurovision/CCTV Master Class on Data Journalism held Monday in Incheon, South Korea.

He said journalists are always on the lookout for approaches to make dry and uninteresting stories really engaging, and data journalism provides that opportunity.

The world is amassed with data, and governments are increasingly making them available to the public for the purpose of transparency or in pursuit of a political agenda. “Journalists are excited about the increasing access to data for it provides them the opportunity to tell a complex story through engaging infographics,” Anderson said.

For those beginning to do data journalism, they can initially rely on websites of governments, private sector and universities to generate relevant and credible data for a story. But in countries with a long history of using data journalism like the USA, they collect their own data, and depend on multiple sources. “It takes a level of sophistication and confidence to do that,” Anderson pointed out.

To pursue data journalism effectively, Anderson recommends a team of various skills to work on available data. The team should include a journalist who has a sense for news and news judgement, a researcher or analyst who can provide background, context and analysis, and a designer from the motion graphics department who can offer visualisation techniques and creativity.

“Rarely can you find one person or one journalist equipped with all those skills to do data journalism. You need the collaboration of talented people with different skills for this purpose,” Anderson said.

If a journalist wishes to go into data journalism, Anderson has a piece of advice – be prepared to deal with math. “You have to be comfortable and confident in dealing with numbers,” he said.  

The two-day workshop covered an overview of best practices in data journalism, ways of finding and gathering your own data, scraping data from the web, use of timelines and maps and building a data team and hanging projects.

The master class was one of five presummit events leading to the Asian Media Summit to take place on Tuesday in Incheon, South Korea.

Anderson who served as workshop consultant has more than 15 years of global journalism and media management experience in his work with the BBC, The Guardian and Gannett.

News organisations across the globe are increasingly using data journalism to find new and compelling ways of telling stories with numbers and infographics, and make people more engaged with information. “Data journalism is making the journalism field more exciting and vibrant,” Mr Kevin Anderson, Faculty member of EBU’s Eurovision Training Academy, told participants of the AIBD/Eurovision/CCTV Master Class on Data Journalism held Monday in Incheon, South Korea.

AIBD Director Chang Jin shared Monday some of AIBD’s future plans in his message to participants in the presummit event on ‘Drones for Content Production,’ citing new initiatives to better serve the Institute’s members and partners.

“We will continue to grow and sustain the Asia Media Summit, now on its 13th year. We will expand participation in this premier communication event not only from the broadcast media industry, but also from new media,” he said.

Setting goals, creating realistic plans and strategies, defining the audience and platform to use to meet your objectives, and determining how to measure results are  critical requirements for success in  creating a vibrant social media community.

“ You cannot engage effectively in social media without these steps; otherwise your efforts will lead to failure,” said  Mr. Benjamin Dalmulder,, Team Manager for Digital Analytics and Search Engine Optimisation, and Ms Katarina Gomes, digital strategist, both of RNW Netherlands, during the regional Workshop on Online and Social Media Analytics held Monday in Incheon, South Korea. Both served as consultant for the project organised by AIBD and supported by RNW, Netherlands.

The use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is increasingly becoming popular for content production on various media platforms. Drones have changed the ‘shooting environments’ in news and drama production, enriching content and viewers’ satisfaction. More broadcast stations are also beefing up their in-house capabilities for drone services.

These are some of the trends in content production that Mr James Ku, President of James Company Ltd,. Korea, highlighted in his presentation Monday during the workshop on ‘Using Drones for Production; A New Wave in Broadcast Content Production,” one of the five –pre-summit events leading to the Asia Media Summit to be held tomorrow in Inchon, Korea.