India-based environmental journalists interested in data storytelling can apply for this six-month training program.
Thibi and the Internews' Earth Journalism Network’s Environmental Data Journalism Academy is seeking applications from environmental journalists in India to participate in a six-month data journalism training program. It aims to enable journalists to produce in-depth data-driven journalism on critical environmental issues in India.
The course is divided into two parts: two months of Fundamentals of Data Journalism online learning, and four months of Advanced Data Storytelling (combination of in-person and remote). The Advanced Data Storytelling phase will provide story mentorships that come with a story production stipend to 15 fellows who completed the Fundamentals phase and successfully pitched a story.
Selected journalists will work on underreported data-driven environmental stories, particularly on India’s water resources, that are in the public interest. They will go through guided exercises to produce data-driven stories and develop mastery over the key issues, tools and storytelling techniques for finding scoops hidden in data.
India-based journalists with experience covering the environment are welcome to apply.
Apply by Mar. 30.