Internews launched its signature 200-hour data journalism certification program with a group of passionate, early career journalists from remote tribal areas of Pakistan. The Internews Data Journalism Certification Program was designed to produce a cadre of public-interest journalists who harness data to cover critical issues in neglected regions, an early experiment in bringing data journalism to local communities.
Stories produced on public interest topics that include government misspending of education funds, water being diverted from citizens to Chinese Belt and Road projects, and successes and failures in empowering women in government in Balochistan, FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have earned participants a host of regional and international recognition.
- Illegal Fishing in Balochistan Coast Causes Catches to Fall Faster, The Balochistan Point, April 5, 2018
- Gwadar’s Growing Water War, Pak Voices, January 4, 2018
- Private health care: faster and better, or just faster and available?, NewsLens Pakistan, January 1, 2018
- Foreign Aid to Pakistan, Data Journalism Pakistan, December 31, 2017
- Balochistan Government Builds Roads While People Sink Further into Poverty, Balochistan Voices, December 26, 2017
- TVET Reform programmes targeting wrong skills, NewsLens Pakistan, September 16, 2017
- In KP, Parents Still Prefer Private Over Public Schools, NewsLens Pakistan, February 18, 2017
Tools & Resources
- DESIGN
- The Promise and Challenge of Data Journalism, March 30, 2018
- TRAINING & PRODUCTION
- Planning a Data Story to Break the Filter Bubble, May 23, 2018
- Internews Data Journalism Syllabus, May 2, 2018
- IMPACT
- Pre and Post Tests, May 15, 2018
In the Media
- How Pakistani Journalists Subvert Danger — and the Narrative — with Data, Global Investigative Journalism Network, April 18, 2018
- Reporting that ‘Focuses on Fixes’, Internews, April 6, 2018
- From Asia and beyond: experts discuss data journalism challenges, Medium, February 26, 2018
- Using Data to (Re)build Trust in Media, Medium, July 26, 2017
- Why data journalism is a civic duty in developing countries, Journalism.co.uk, July 18, 2017