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Aims to gather the opinion of journalists and people working in the media on this emerging field and understand what the training needs are. The survey is done by the European Journalism Centre, a non-profit organization which aims to help journalists do their work better especially through trainings, conferences and seminars. It is done in collaboration with Mirko Lorenz, DW. The survey is still running so what I’m going to present are some preliminary results.

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Online publishers are most interested in learning to analyze, visualize and develop a story from data Newspapers are most interested in analysing data and equally in developing a story from data, programming and developing data-driven apps Top 3 learning needs for magazines are analysing data, finding data and developing a story from data Broadcasters are mostly interested in analysing data, verifying data and visualizing data.

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Journalists consider raw data to be very important almost unanimously Almost half envision practising data journalism by a combination of external services or experts and staff For online publishers not doing data journalism is not an option The skills that they are interested in receiving most training are: analyzing data, visualizing data and developing a story from data

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Preliminary results of EJC survey on training needs for data journalism