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Analytic journalism seeks to make sense of a complex reality in order to create public understanding. It combines some aspects of investigative journalism and explanatory reporting. Analytic journalism can be seen as a response to professionalized communication from powerful agents, information overload and growing complexity in a globalised world. It aims at creating evidence-based interpretations of reality, often confronting the dominant ways of understanding a specific phenomenon. It is distinctive in terms of research practices and journalistic product.〔Ross, Steven S. (2005). ”Teaching Computer-assisted Reporting on South India": pages 303-318 in Rajan, Nalini (edt)(2005). Practising Journalism: Values, Constrains, Implications, New Delhi: Sage〕 At times, social science research methodologies are used.〔Adam, G. Stuart & Roy Peter Clark (ed.) (2006). Journalism. The Democratic Craft, New York: Oxford University Press.〕 The journalist gains expertise on a particular topic, to identify a phenomenon that is not readily obvious. At its best, investigative journalism is deeply analytic, but its intent is primarily to expose; analytic journalism's primary aim is to explain. It contextualizes its subject by describing background, historical details and statistical data. The result is a comprehensive explanation, intended to shape the audience’s perception of the phenomenon. Analytic journalism aspires to collect disparate data and make connections that are not immediately apparent; its effectiveness is often in the analysis between the facts rather than the facts themselves, and is critically engaged with other arguments and explanations.〔Argument-Explanation Complementarity and the Structure of Informal Reasoning. Informal Logic 30 (1): pages 92-111. Available at: http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/419/2364 (20 ))〕 In this way, analytic journalists attempt to give a deeper understanding of an issue. == What do analytic journalists make use of == As analytic journalism attempts to transcend regular news reporting, which is primarily designed to relay facts, analytic journalists must use critical methods that allow them to present information in a way that distinguishes it from hard news. Analytic journalism often applies the scientific method of testing and retesting of hypotheses against the evidence. Assumptions are systematically tested by verifying, affirming and altering hypotheses. Analytic journalists attempt to construct new frames or angles through which to reconfigure understanding. They help bring the background into the foreground and "making it thereby available for conversation and collective notion".〔Schudson, Michael, 2008. Why democracies need an unlovable press, Cambridge: Polity Press: pages 16-17〕 The legitimacy of the author's voice is created by the coherent assembly of facts and evidence.〔McCroskey, James C. (2005). “Ethos A Dominant Factor in Rhetorical Communication”, pp. 82-107 in James C. McCroskey. An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication//, 9th ed, Boston: Allyn & Bacon.)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「analytic journalism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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