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    Master Thesis
    Use of Data Visualization in News Reporting in Turkey
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Demirel, Sadettin; Alankuş, Sevda
    The purpose of this thesis is to reveal the current state of the use of data visualization in news reporting and challenges of integrating data visualization in news making in Turkey. Unlike the previous studies’ graphic design perspective to the subject of data visualization this thesis approached the subject of data visualization from the journalistic perspective in Turkey. Mixed method approach was used to scrutinize the subject of the thesis. The method contains two components which are a quantitative content analysis to monitor use of data visualization in 5 selected newspapers and 5 selected digital news outlets for three weeks and qualitative semistructured interviews that provide deeper understandings and opinions of 10 news editors and reporters from news media outlets regarding challenges they encounter in the process of utilizing data visualization in news reporting. Also relevant pieces of academic literature local and international news media reports and surveys were used to examine the subject more thoroughly. Qualitative and quantitative findings that were derived from the conducted research and secondary sources indicate that use of data visualization in news media was not a sufficient level and newsrooms face internal and external challenges in this process. These are lack of time to work with data lack of technical skills limited features of data analyses and data visualization tools lack of available and tidy data and unsuitable data formats the absence of reader’s interest unsustainable business model and current political atmosphere.