24-28 April. Perugia, Italy.
The 2nd edition of the School of Data Journalism is hosted by the International Journalism Festival.
The annual Perugia International Journalism Festival is the leading journalism event in Italy. It is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. The leitmotiv is one of informality and...
The Centre of Advanced Journalism, University of Melbourne has launched what is believed to be the first academic course in data driven journalism in Australia. Ten students doing the Master of Journalism program enrolled in the course given by an experienced data journalist. It is planned to be scaled up in the next academic year.
“Our students have looked at key examples of data journalism and also learnt how to find, scrape, analyse and visualise the data...
Fjum and the European Journalism Centre are organising a two-day Data Journalism Conference, Vienna, 14 -15 June 2012.
The 1st Day of the conference, June 14th, offers a series of talks, aimed at journalists and decision makers in newsrooms, heads of sections or editors-in-chief, who want to get a sense of what data journalism can do for their newsroom, what the operation involves and if it makes sense for their newsroom to start a data journalism operation.
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Why should newsrooms introduce data journalism?
What can data journalism do for your...
The European Journalism Centre and fjum (the forum for journalism and media in Vienna) are inviting journalists and media professionals to a two-day data journalism event in Vienna, Austria on 14 and 15 June.
A one day conference is followed by a second day of workshops. The program is focussed on how to get started with data driven journalism, and how to develop the skills needed.
Registration is now open, and the deadline for registration for the workshops is on 20 May.
Workshops will take...
The Data Journalism Handbook has been published this weekend. The handbook is the result of a collaborative effort by data journalists around the world, edited by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers (OKFN) and Liliane Bonegrou (ECJ).
Data Journalism Handbook cover
The book is available both in hard copy, as well as on-line for free.
Areas covered...
Liliana Bounegru (European Journalism Centre) or Lucy Chambers (Open Knowledge Foundation) are calling upon the open data community to help finalize a handbook on data journalism. In a posting on datadrivenjournalism.net calling for contributions they write:
"Work on the handbook was kick-started in November of...
The University of Tilburg in the Netherlands is starting a master track on data journalism this year.
This english language curriculum is the first such Dutch university track and combines ICT and journalism. This master will be part of the existing master communication and information sciences. Themes covered are data analysis, data storytelling, data visualization and data publication. It will draw also on existing master courses on Human Aspects of...
Tampere, 21 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The first large scale event on data driven journalism in Finland is taking place next week on 29 September, in Tampere.
The event brings together journalists, coders, media companies, academics and others. The event aims to create a meeting place for those interested in data journalism, and is focussing on municipal data and local journalism, in the context of the upcoming 2012 municipal elections in Finland.
Most of...
Utrecht, 19 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
On 8 and 9 September the EJC organized a workshop for journalists on data driven journalism, focussing on EU budget and spending data in Utrecht, Netherlands. With general introductions on the first day, both in terms of the available data, as well as the available tools, the second day was dedicated to actually working with the data by the participants themselves.
As a kick-off Ron Korver, press officer at the EU Parliament explained the way the EU budget is...
Enschede, 14 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
Two Dutch regional newspapers( Stentor and TC Tubantia) have launched 'RegioHack', a new initiative to experiment with data driven journalism around local issues with local open government data. Both news papers circulate in the eastern part of the Netherlands.
The launch of the website RegioHack.nl today is a step on the way to a 30 hour coding event in November. Then 30 participants will spend 30 hours on a topic of interest to journalists, to find, clean...
