Data journalism in the Philippines
New trends, new practices for old media organizations.

This chapter offers an exploratory analysis of data journalism experiences of four of the most established and largest news organizations in the Philippines. The research examines how these local news organizations adopted data journalism into their traditional practice beginning in the 1990s when use of the internet likewise started. The paper tracks the development of data journalism in the Philippines by analyzing: 1) key organizational changes that needed to be made in the move towards a more data-driven approach in reporting; 2) adjustments in the story identification, research, collaboration, analysis, and presentation of stories as well as challenges encountered; and, 3) emerging good practices as well as areas for strengthening organizational capacity and institutional and legal hindrances that pose challenges for data journalism to thrive locally.