Apply for our free data journalism training programme!

Digging into Data: Data Journalism for Community Reporters

This free 7-week course will teach data journalism skills that can be used to uncover and tell local stories.

12 places are available.
No previous experience is required – just curiosity, interest in local community issues, and a passion for storytelling!

📅 Dates: 16 April – 26 May (TBC) 
📍 Format: Online & in-person sessions on Wednesday evenings from 6:15-8:15
📰 Final stories will be published in a special issue of Greater Govanhill magazine. 

A stipend of £100 is available to participants. 

To apply. complete the application form.

More info

Greater Govanhill if offering free training courses on data journalism skills for people in Govanhill who have experience of marginalisation.

The participants will be equipped with the skills to dig into data around issues that they care about, and which also affect other people locally. They will also be equipped with skills to be able to tell these stories, with a particular focus on solutions journalism, discovering the positive outliers in datasets and investigating who’s done it better.

We will have guest speakers leading on different elements of data journalism and the course will be facilitate in The Community Newsroom by journalist Eve Livingston.

The aim is both hold power to account, and to inspire others to make change happen.

The resulting work will be featured in a special issue of the Greater Govanhill magazine

This project has been funded by the Research Data Scotland (RDS) pilot community fund which aims to support a community organisation to engage people in data research.