ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the rise of Big Data and algorithm-based computer code are transforming journalism in the twenty-first century. The code movement is also making dramatic inroads into contemporary journalism, an industry itself undergoing a broad sea-change across the United States and abroad. Coding, Big Data, and public connectivity via the internet represent a shift in the tectonic plates that undergird modern journalism. The confluence of these three developments is reshaping journalism on at least four levels across the world. As computers, digitization, and data have become fundamental to nearly every aspect of daily life, journalists and journalistic institutions have begun to recognize the central role that programming, or code, in the form of computerized algorithms or digital instructions especially via data-driven mathematical models, and storytelling. In the digital age, journalists around the world should find creative ways to employ data, code, and critical, independent thinking to decipher the myriad stories.
