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26 June 2025

OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

27 June 2025

Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner [B]-Intermediate [I]. Sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it. Maybe your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle.

26 June 2025

Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners (part I) and intermediates (parts II and III).

26 June 2025

Data Journalism: Putting Python into Practice — Hands-on Coding for Journalists, by Journalists 1-3. Hands-On. [B-I]

Hands-on. Beginner [B]-Intermediate [I]. See each session for the details. This three-part series introduces participants to the power of Python, by journalists, for journalists. We'll help you take your first steps on the road to code, from the very basics, to working with giant spreadsheets, to extracting structured data from the web.

4 July 2024

Locating State Violence: OSINT and Geolocation. Hands-On. [B]

This workshop is an introduction to the principles and techniques of Forensic Architecture and open-source human rights investigations more broadly. This session will cover open-source research and geolocation, as well as basic media and spatial analysis.

4 July 2024

Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. Sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it. Maybe your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle.

3 July 2024

Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners (part I) and intermediates (parts II and III).

4 July 2024

OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

29 June 2023

Source Protection Programme: Phishing 101

Phishing is a digital attempt by a bad actor (e.g. hackers, data-mining companies) to persuade you to reveal your personal information (e.g. passwords, credit card numbers) often received via email or text message.

28 June 2023

Web Basics: How the Web Works and How to Scrape It. Hands-on. [B]

Hands-on. Beginner. Have you ever wondered how exactly your stories reach your readers? Ever wanted to know how to build a simple webpage? Or how to scrape information from a website onto your computer?