Looking to level up your career and modernize your skills?
The Howard Center Data Journalism Training Program, funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation, helps you add new, modern media skills to your toolbox without the commitment of pursuing a full degree.
Under the guidance of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s award-winning faculty, get elite training in data acquisition, analysis and visualization — key reporting and storytelling methods for any newsroom — and study how you can ethically integrate artificial intelligence into your workflow.
The fully online four-course program is accessible to students across the globe. Learn how to use data and AI to improve investigative reporting in your communities.
Details and Requirements
- Four courses plus a final project will earn participants a program certificate of completion
- The courses are fully online and self-paced
- Students will have six months to complete an individual course after registering
- Students can expect to spend up to 10 hours per course
Courses
How Journalists Ask Questions of Data
What You'll Learn:
- How to generate data story ideas
- Basic data analysis
- Exploratory data visualization
- Basic statistics
Where Journalists Find Data
What You'll Learn:
- Understanding data and its limitations
- Where to get data or build it on your own
- Data acquisition
- Cleaning data
- Using AI as a helper
How Journalists Tell Visual Stories With Data
What You'll Learn:
- How journalists think about data storytelling
- Visualization and design fundamentals
- Chart types
- Graphics and mapping
How and Why Journalists Use Computation and AI
What You'll Learn:
- What automation and AI can and can't do
- AI writing
- Automated analysis
Learn From Expert Faculty
Adam Marton
Director, Capital News Service Data and Graphics Bureau; Senior Lecturer
Sean Mussenden
Director, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism; Principal Lecturer
Daniel Trielli
Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy
Rob Wells
Associate Professor
Derek Willis
Lecturer in Data and Computational Journalism
For More Information
Alexander Pyles
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs; Director of Master's Program; Senior Lecturer