Investigative Data Journalism

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Data has become a part of virtually every news beat in the industry. Journalists need to know how to turn records into quantifiable information and work with publicly available datasets. This course will walk through the basics of working with data. Students will learn how to acquire, analyze and vet data from a variety of sources using Excel, Python and other tools. They will also take a look at some of today's most innovative data journalism techniques. This course will be taught by ProPublica reporter Neil Bedi, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2021.