EarthCheck – India’s Climate Change Data Journalism, Visualization and Verification Workshop

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Workshop on November 25 – 26 2022

Azim Premji University was established under the Azim Premji University Act 2010 of the Government of Karnataka. Azim Premji Foundation, the sponsoring body set up the University as a fully philanthropic and not-for-profit entity, with a clear social purpose. The University started in 2011 and since then have admitted over 2000 students.

Inviting journalists and media fraternity to attend a 2-day certificate course on India’s Climate Change.

Workshop – The workshop aims to provide journalists with the basic tools and skill-sets to report on climate change, thereby encouraging climate change journalism.

2-day certificate course that aims to provide journalists with the basic tools and skills – sets to report on climate change.

Through the EarthCheck Workshops, cohorts of climate change journalists will learn to identify data sets, source and clean data, visualize data, find story angles and build a narrative that is data-backed and based on evidence. Tools to visualize data will also be introduced to the participants.

The participants of this workshop will learn how to use basic applications to detect disinformation and misinformation, verify claims and false reports, and locate, analyse and present information on climate change. Journalists will learn how to write effective pitches, develop storylines and understand the scope of climate change and its role on health systems, education, economic activity, gender and migration among others issues. These workshops will apply a solutions lens while training journalists to report on climate change. By the end of the two-day workshop, a reporter will have adequate skill-sets to build a data-backed narrative on climate change and an understanding of best practices while reporting on climate change.
Target audience:
Journalists and reporters with minimum 3 years work experience in the newsroom across beats.
Venue : Azim Premji University Sarjapur, Bengaluru
Registration Link– https://lnkd.in/dTTjq9z2
Registration fee: INR 800/- + GST (the payment link will be sent to you after registration)

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