Data Journalism in Turkey: Developing a Scale and Measuring Journalists’ Skills

Data journalism has recently emerged as an important method of news gathering and editing in journalism. For data -which includes the process producing from data- journalists need to have various skills competencies. As a result literature review, it is observed that required competencies for not been determined precisely, this regard, there lack quantitative studies measure these This study aims develop unique scale will reveal producers. purpose, developed through online survey applied producers registered with Turkish Press Agency (BIK). item pool, expert views, application stages, understood can be measured 2-factor structure: “data tools” “journalism skills.” The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient overall 21-item was calculated 0.856, tools factor 0.883, skill 0.821. research, while are at high level, their competence processing low. In sense -as study- revision recommended both academic professional training curriculum include collection, analysis visualization improve