Recently named director of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center Media Impact Project, Dana Chinn is a media analytics strategist whose teaching, research and consulting focus on digital analytics for news and nonprofit organizations. As a faculty fellow, Chinn leads the Open Data LA project, a CCLP collaboration with the USC Price School of Public Policy that aims to promote public access to government data throughout Los Angeles County. "Open data is a new aspect of journalism in the public interest," said Chinn. "It's a worldwide movement, but we're going to focus on how open data initiatives can address……