The Specials_ recently appointed acting head of development said his news values
come from BBC audience values, around accessibility and diversity. He mentioned that
one of their current projects had raised ethical dilemmas around the sourcing of data.
He received a large amount of proprietary data from an organisation who in return
wanted publicity around the issue of music piracy. The team were planning to create
an interactive area-map of music piracy across the United Kingdom. He said they had
to make difficult decisions about this, and be careful not to use the data in a way that
may work to the commercial advantage of the source which provided the data. He sees
journalists as _customers__he works in Web development first and foremost. He
explains that there is some editorial overlap between project managers and data
journalists, suggesting the rise in tensions caused by the increasing fusion of form and
content in online journalism.