PIJI’s Australian News Data Project (ANDP) is a body of work designed to assess media diversity and plurality. Some ANDP projects are static snapshots and others are cumulative by design. PIJI is constantly adding new data to enrich our understanding of the health of Australia’s public interest journalism.
PIJI currently maintains two maps visualising the data collated in the Australian News Index. The Tracking Changes shows the production and availability of news in Australia as it changes over time. The The Local News Producers Maps show print, digital and broadcast (radio and television) news producers.
The ANI is a searchable database of state/territory, national and non-geographic news producers. The ANI supplies the data for the ANMP visualisations and will also incorporate the Australian News Sampling Project data in due course.
The ANSP assesses news output by specific geographic location/s to understand the local character and quantity of public interest journalism production and produces each as a case study. It has been designed to examine and contrast the volume and frequency of locally relevant news content at an individual community level.
Each month PIJI releases a narrative report detailing changes made in the database, as well as a data sheet as it stood at the end of the month. The narrative report discusses the evidence for changes that were made and how the project design influences them. PIJI also releases a quarterly analysis of broader trends observed across the landscape.
