<s>
Database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
or	O
structured	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
principle	O
in	O
information	B-Application
management	I-Application
whereby	O
news	O
content	O
is	O
organized	O
around	O
structured	O
pieces	O
of	O
data	O
,	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
news	O
stories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Communication	O
scholar	O
Wiebke	O
Loosen	O
defines	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
as	O
"	O
supplying	O
databases	O
with	O
raw	O
material	O
-	O
articles	O
,	O
photos	O
and	O
other	O
content	O
-	O
by	O
using	O
medium-agnostic	O
publishing	B-Protocol
systems	I-Protocol
and	O
then	O
making	O
it	O
available	O
for	O
different	O
devices.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Computer	O
programmer	O
Adrian	O
Holovaty	O
wrote	O
what	O
is	O
now	O
considered	O
the	O
manifesto	O
of	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
in	O
September	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
him	O
,	O
a	O
key	O
difference	O
between	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
and	O
traditional	O
journalism	O
is	O
that	O
the	O
latter	O
produces	O
articles	O
as	O
the	O
final	O
product	O
while	O
the	O
former	O
produces	O
databases	O
of	O
facts	O
that	O
are	O
continually	O
maintained	O
and	O
improved	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2007	O
saw	O
a	O
rapid	O
development	O
in	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
importance	O
of	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
was	O
highlighted	O
when	O
the	O
Knight	O
Foundation	O
awarded	O
$	O
1,100,000	O
to	O
Adrian	O
Holovaty	O
's	O
EveryBlock	O
project	O
,	O
which	O
offers	O
local	O
news	O
at	O
the	O
level	O
of	O
city	O
block	O
,	O
drawing	O
from	O
existing	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Referring	O
to	O
Bill	O
Dedman	O
's	O
Pulitzer	O
Prize-winning	O
articles	O
called	O
The	O
Color	O
of	O
Money	O
,	O
Pilhofer	O
suggested	O
that	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
accepted	O
by	O
the	O
trade	O
and	O
will	O
develop	O
,	O
much	O
like	O
CAR	O
did	O
in	O
the	O
1980s	O
and	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Seeing	O
journalistic	O
content	O
as	O
data	O
has	O
pushed	O
several	O
news	O
organizations	O
to	O
release	O
APIs	B-General_Concept
,	O
including	O
the	O
BBC	O
,	O
the	O
Guardian	O
,	O
the	O
New	O
York	O
Times	O
and	O
the	O
American	O
National	O
Public	O
Radio	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data-driven	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
process	O
whereby	O
journalists	O
build	O
stories	O
using	O
numerical	O
data	O
or	O
databases	O
as	O
a	O
primary	O
material	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
,	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
organizational	O
structure	O
for	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
focuses	O
on	O
the	O
constitution	O
and	O
maintenance	O
of	O
the	O
database	O
upon	O
which	O
web	B-Application
or	O
mobile	B-Application
applications	I-Application
can	O
be	O
built	O
,	O
and	O
from	O
which	O
journalists	O
can	O
extract	O
data	O
to	O
carry	O
out	O
data-driven	O
stories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Early	O
projects	O
in	O
this	O
new	O
database	B-General_Concept
journalism	I-General_Concept
were	O
mySociety	O
in	O
the	O
UK	O
,	O
launched	O
in	O
2004	O
,	O
and	O
Adrian	O
Holovaty	O
's	O
chicagocrime.org,	O
released	O
in	O
2005	O
.	O
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