Data Journalism Course
This course equips journalists with essential skills to transform public data into compelling, ethical stories through investigative techniques, data handling, visualization, and transparent reporting practices.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Data Journalism Course shows how to turn public data into clear, trustworthy stories. Learn to frame sharp questions, find and evaluate open datasets, extract and clean messy files, and link spending to outcomes without overstating causality. Practice simple statistical checks, design accessible visuals, and document methods, ethics, and sources so your work is accurate, transparent, and ready for publication.
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Develop skills
- Investigative data framing: turn newsroom questions into testable data angles.
- Public data sourcing: quickly find, vet, and document high-impact civic datasets.
- Data cleaning for journalists: extract, fix, and merge messy PDFs, CSVs, and APIs.
- Visual storytelling: design clear charts and narratives for nontechnical readers.
- Ethical, reproducible workflows: document methods, caveats, and data use legally.
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