When reporters start asking questions, the first thing they do is identify themselves as journalists. But when data journalists use web scraping to gather data, a robot is the one sending queries to servers or databases. Glen McGregor, national affairs reporter for the Ottawa Citizen, says journalists should still identify themselves as such: “In the HTTP headers, I put my name, my phone number and a note saying: ‘I am a reporter extracting data from this webpage.’” But not all data journalists follow the same thinking. Philippe Gohier, web editor-in-chief at L’Actualité, avoids identifying himself: “I change my IP address and I change my headers too, to make it look like a real human instead of a bot. I try to respect the rules, but I also try to be undetectable.”
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