Web Scraping for Journalists
Faster than FOI and more detailed than advanced search techniques, scraping also allows you to grab data that organisations would rather you didn’t have – and put it into a form that allows you to get answers.
Learn the skills, values and tools of investigative journalism.
Faster than FOI and more detailed than advanced search techniques, scraping also allows you to grab data that organisations would rather you didn’t have – and put it into a form that allows you to get answers.
An introduction to the techniques of data journalism You’ve heard people talking about data, and data journalism and don’t know where to start? Then this one-day course is for you.
This course will give participants an opportunity to brush up on core data skills and combine them with advanced internet research for rich, in-depth investigations.
Sometimes, the only way to get to the story is to go undercover. Learn how from our trainers, all experienced experts in the field.
This one-day course will teach you how to get the most out of one of the most popular programming languages for data journalism tasks.
Think differently about how investigative journalism can be done.
In exciting news, our Director James Harkin has been awarded a prestigious Shorenstein Fellowship at the Kennedy School, Harvard University for a project on “fake news” and investigative journalism.
14/09/2017 A talk from one of the founders of Pussy Riot on Russia’s Official Media, and how to subvert it.
02/11/2017 Watch excerpts from Jimmy Wales’ conversation with James Harkin on establishing the WikiTribune and public trust in the media industry.
23/01/2018 Misha Glenny talks on adapting his investigative work into fiction for the BBC series McMafia.