“大数据”是2012年以来国内新闻传播学界热议的话题。与之不同的是，关于“数据新闻”的研究却非常欠缺。后者是当下全球新闻业应对大数据时代发展变革中产生的新兴领域，且被视为未来新闻业的发展趋势。本文试图通过对国内外关于数据新闻的阐释文献的梳理，结合主流媒体实践数据新闻的经典案例剖析，解读“数据新闻”的概念内涵与基本特征，理清数据新闻与精确新闻、计算机辅助新闻报道、数据可视化之间的关系，展示数据新闻实践的最新成果。

A number of studies have been done toward the thesis of “big data” since 2012, but few researchers have paid attention to another concept of “data journalism”. Data journalism, a new concept emerging from the innovation and development of modern journalism practices, is believed to be the future of journalism. This paper reviewed different views on data journalism from home and abroad and sorted out some main stream media practices for case studies. Thus it tried to define the concept, describe its basic features and differentiate data journalism from the concepts of precision journalism, computer-assisted reporting and data visualization for a whole review.