VizChitra 2025

Description and Takeaways:

The presentation would be about journalism within the larger ambit of story-telling at a time of print in crisis. Story-telling in the print media has to adopt to a milieu where there is a multiplicity of news sources and immediate availability of a lot of content, but which are largely not subject to gate-keeping and verification. It has also got to adopt to a milieu where readership/ viewership has steadily moved away from print into new digital formats - online and video.

In order to cater to a diverse audience and to establish a USP, print has to move beyond the idea of just being “news sources of record” into investigation, analysis, explanation and to put it in a nutshell - “context setting”. Data journalism helps in a significant manner to situate print journalism in this new “context setting” idea. It helps in explanation, it helps in diversification of audience through innovative story-telling and it, by the very dint of its nature, helps in transition into new mediums.

Our presentation will focus on ways and means we have used data for these aspects of context-setting - investigations, explanation and analysis. We will delve further into how new technologies such as Gen AI has eased the job of entering into these new vistas while enhancing our process of story-telling in a deeper and more engaging manner.

Who is the audience for your talk/session? -

Data journalists, young journalists, those interested in the present and future of Indian media.

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Srinivasan Ramani, Deputy National Editor, The Hindu anchors the explanatory opinion and data journalism sections of The Hindu newspaper and its digital products.
Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Principal Correspondent, anchors The Hindu Data Team and publishes data stories across different media for The Hindu.