This research describes the professional profile of journalists who work in newsrooms that are pioneers in data analysis in Peru: Ojo Público and Convoca, as native digital media, and El Comercio Data and La República Data, as part of traditional media. To achieve this objective, and through a mixed approach, their bosses, coordinators or directors are interviewed, and questionnaires are applied to the journalists who work in them. The results show that journalists follow the methodology of data journalism, consisting of seven work phases: compile, clean, context, combine, analysis, verification and communication of data, and using technological tools in each of them with a skill level that is primarily not expert. In addition, most of their knowledge was self-taught, thus evidencing a lack of specialization in data journalism in the Peruvian higher education.

Describe y explica la aplicación de la metodología del periodismo de datos en investigaciones periodísticas basadas en el análisis de datos, de dos medios nativos digitales independientes de Perú, que tienen como componente principal información obtenida a través de la Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la información Pública. Para este propósito, se analizó —a partir de datos recopilados por medio de encuestas y entrevistas— el trabajo realizado por los periodistas y tecnólogos en la ejecución de los proyectos Memoria robada y Excesos sin castigo, de Ojo Público y Convoca, respectivamente. Ambas investigaciones periodísticas forman parte de los primeros trabajos de largo plazo publicados por los medios de comunicación en mención, en donde se realizaron cientos de solicitudes de información a instituciones públicas y cuyos datos fueron liberados en sus respectivas pla...

This research describes the professional profile of journalists who work in newsrooms that are pioneers in data analysis in Peru: Ojo Público and Convoca, as native digital media, and El Comercio Data and La República Data, as part of traditional media. To achieve this objective, and through a mixed approach, their bosses, coordinators or directors are interviewed, and questionnaires are applied to the journalists who work in them. The results show that journalists follow the methodology of data journalism, consisting of seven work phases: compile, clean, context, combine, analysis, verification and communication of data, and using technological tools in each of them with a skill level that is primarily not expert. In addition, most of their knowledge was self-taught, thus evidencing a lack of specialization in data journalism in the Peruvian higher education.