Analytic journalism

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 to create evidence-based interpretations of reality, often confronting dominant ways of understanding a specific phenomenon.

Analytic journalists use critical methods to present information in a distinct way, differing from event-driven hard news.

According to Adam and Clark[4] Analytic journalists should retrieve and adapt methodologies from other disciplines to enlarge journalism so that it incorporates knowledge and methods generated by historians, social scientists, anthropologists, and critics.

The Institute of Analytic Journalism employs a rather general definition and positions it within a critical approach: "critical thinking and analysis using a variety of intellectual tools and methods to understand multiple phenomena and to communicate the results of those insights to multiple audiences in a variety of ways.

Analytic journalism, on the other hand, seeks to take the data available and reconfigure it, helping us to ask questions about the situation or statement or see it in a different way.