Help Fund Data Journalism Education With This Kickstarter

"Take a data journalism class," advises Dan Oshinsky, newsletter editor at Buzzfeed, in a tweet addressed to students at the Missouri School of Journalism (and followers of his Twitter feed). "Data journalism people get hired. Period."

At present, courses that fall under the data journalism umbrella are relatively scant. A cursory glance at the course catalogs for Columbia's and Northwestern (Medill)'s graduate programs showcase a few classes and workshops on the subject, skewed heavily towards data visualization. (A course at Medill does promise to teach students how to mine and present public government data.) What you won't find are courses on core programming languages, or building re…
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