原《亚特兰大商业纪事报》执行总编、清华大学全球财经新闻联合主任Margaret Freaney认为,数据新闻改变了传媒业的诸多方面:包括由于技术进步而减少的记者数量、对记者多媒体报道能力的要求提高,以及文章由依靠访谈者的言论到依靠数据挖掘。这一变化一方面使报道精确度提高,但另一方面却是以裁员和增强对记者个体能力期许为代价。 Margaret Freaney, former managing editor of the Atlanta Business Chronicle and co-director of global financial news at Tsinghua University, believes that data news has changed many aspects of the media industry, including the reduction in the number of journalists due to technological advances and the increased demand for reporters’ multimedia reporting capabilities , As well as articles relying on interviewers’ remarks to rely on data mining. This change, on the one hand, has led to increased reporting accuracy, but on the other hand, it has been at the expense of layoffs and the expectation of increasing the individual capacity of journalists.