The new ‘Editorial Leaders’ initiative from the World Editors Forum and WAN-IFRA, is a module based training programme aimed at improving the knowledge of mid career journalists. It is designed to help them gain professional expertise to better engage with the communities around them.

Thye third of the six modules is 'Data Journalism'.

Big data has changed journalism for ever. The internet and storage of information online has opened up a new field of journalism for those able to make sense of data. With a few new skills journalists can make sense of data and use online information to identify, tell and visualise stories for any platform.

This workshop will provide strategic insight, case studies as well as skills and tools to allow editors to use data journalism in the newsroom for improved storytelling.

• Telling stories with data - great storytelling with numbers
• Avoiding common mistakes with data
• An intro to spreadsheets
• Choosing a chart or visualisation
• Finding your own data
• Data visualisation and analysis tools
• Datawrapper
• Fusion tables
• Fusion tables versus pivot tables
• Timelines
• Maps

Module Leader: Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson, Regional Exectuive Editor, Gannett Wisconsin Media, USA