ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a personal perspective on the trajectory of the impact of digital on journalism, drawing on the authors' experiences as a founding editor of the BBC News website. It considers experiences and examples from the naissance of online journalism at the public broadcaster as a means to trace possible parallels and divergences with the development of data journalism. Data journalists have emerged as an occupational subgroup, combining public interest journalism with newer approaches. In the BBC’s case, many radio and television journalists were dismissive of the notion that digital editorial work was journalism. M. Powers notes that people with computing skills, such as programmers and developers, have a history of being labeled as engaging in non-journalistic forms of work. The physical separation contributed to the development of an intellectual separation concerning how the online team conceived of its journalism. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
