Title: Representing big data in sport and entertainment journalism

NOTICE: You don’t need to write introduction, first part of main body and conclusion. You just need to write second, third and fourth part in main body. Besides, the second and third part should write about 9000- 10000 words, the fourth part should write 2000-3000 words.

BE AWARE: This paper is focus on data – driven predictive news in sport and entertainment news/journalism field, therefore please DO NOT write this paper from wide-ranging of data – driven predictive news.

Research question:
1 What effect does big data have on traditional media? (In sport and entertainment field)
2 Discuss the current situation and problems of data – driven predictive news reporting. (In sport and entertainment news/journalism)
3 Analyses the data – driven predictive report about Oscar and the UEFA Euro in 2016. (Prediction procedure, operation method and result)
4 Discuss how data – driven predictive news might improve. (In sport and entertainment news/journalism)

Outline:

Introduction (You don’t need to write this part)

Main Body
1. Big data (You don’t need to write this part)
(1) The definition and character of big data
(2) The impact of big data on media industry
(a) The rise of data news. Data has become a core resource in news report.
(b) Better understanding of audiences
(c) Journalistic requirement for using

2. Data – driven predictive news (In sport and entertainment field)
(1) The function and its influence (The content below is just example, you should add some new ideas)
(a) Represent information and predict future
(b) Expanding news contents
(2) The current situation and problems (This part is important, be critical)
(a) Just brief introduce the current situation of data – driven predictive news. (In sport and entertainment field)
(b) Problems: somewhere be critical of the way big data is deployed – Journalists need to be aware of the potential problems.
Such as: used as a voice of authority

3. 2016 Oscar and UEFA Euro case studies. (This part is important, you should analyses these case from critical angle).
(1) 2016 Oscar (Analyses how journalists use data to reporting and predicting news/ Different organization may use different methods to analyses data, you can compare them)
(2) 2016 UEFA Euro
(3) Summary

4. Methods for improving data – driven predictive news (In sport and entertainment field)
(1) Awareness of problems
(2) Strategies (how to improving data – driven predictive news (In sport and entertainment field))

Conclusion (You don’t need to write this part)

References:
1. You should be using newest recourses.
2. Please using academic resources (Academic journals/books/articles) and do not over use internet sources.
3. Numbers of references: around 100.
4. Please using right reference format (Harvard)

Notes:
1. You must be using right citation format – (name, year, page number)
2. If you are using chart or figure, please use new and true data (it’s better from famous organization)