Journalism

College of Arts & Sciences

Journalists, now more than ever, need to be able to use data as any other type of information for news reporting and storytelling. This introductory course, designed for journalism majors, encourages students to understand data as a natural source of journalism, understand the core concepts of data journalism, gain capacity and literacy to assess data for news reporting, and learn skills and tools for searching and using datasets as a part of journalistic practices.