The Climate Data Journalism Workshop- Bengaluru edition
In partnership with the Azim Premji University, IndiaSpend curated a series of 2- day Climate Data Journalism workshops across 5 different cities. The main aim is to bridge the wide gaps in understanding climate change and its impact on the socio-economic fabric of the country combined with an evident apathy on the part of editors and owners of mainstream media.
The workshops focused on providing guidance, imparting data and solution journalism to journalists, journalism students, and civil society organizations on how they can contribute in a more meaningful way to reporting on climate change, the odds of sparking public interest and steering attention to understanding one’s role in the fight for the planet.
Through Climate Data Journalism Workshops we have built a cohort of climate change journalism networks. The workshops have contributed to the formation of this collective body, indicating collaboration and shared interests in reporting on climate change-related issues.
The main components of the workshop included sessions on data, visualizations, policy, misinformation and media literacy, writing a climate change story, and a few case studies.
Faculty
Ulka Kelkar
Director, Climate program, WRI India
Shreya Khaitan
Writer and editor, IndiaSpend
Shreehari Paliath
Policy analyst, IndiaSpend
Seema Mundoli
Faculty Azim Premji University
Santonu Goswami
Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Sandhya Sekar
Program-manager, Mongabay-India.
Ronak Sutaria
Founder and CEO, Respirer Living Sciences
Richie Lionell
Founder, Bezalel Data
Prem Panicker
Consulting editor, IndiaSpend
Nasr ul Hadi
Founder, PROTO
Karthik Madhavapeddi
Deputy editor, IndiaSpend
Harini Nagendra
Director, Research s Center for Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University
Divya Chandra
Workshops and Training, BOOM FactCheck
Agenda
Introduction
<li> Registrations</li> <li> introductions & pre test</li> <li> Setting context for the workshop & housekeeping rules</li> <li> Highulghting focus areas of the workshop and expected outcomes. <ul> <li>1. Climate change + data.</li> <li>2. Climate change + visualisation. 3. Climate Change + Misinformation, disinformation and verification</li> <li>4. Climate change + policy</li> <li>5. Climate change + sensors, technology, IOT and cloud.</li> </ul> </li>
Opening session
India and the climate abyss: Fine scale changes from downscaled climate data for 2021 – 2040
Writing on climate change – A comprehensive overview
<li> Components of a climate-focused story – Narrative, data, visualisations and fact checking</li> <li> Simplifying attribution in climate science</li> <li> The importance of understanding policy – From a reporter's perspective</li> <li> Navigating research reports and technical papers</li> <li> The art of visualisations – An introduction</li>
#Breathe & Chasing Methane- Data Journalism + Civic Tech collaboration
Understanding the role of citizen science and data journalism in prioritising issues such a air quality, heatwaves, and other climate change events
Misinformation and disinformation + fact checking + data check
<li> What is misinformation/disinformation + examples</li> <li> What is climate misinformation + examples</li> <li> Types of fact-checking [journalistic, longform, claim verification] Examples of each: journalistic (2 sources), longform (underline every claim), claim verification (examples)</li> <li> Archiving</li> <li> Observational skills in fact-checking</li> <li> How to verify images</li> <li> Videos: how to verify flood videos</li>
Pitch Perfect
How to get your editor interested in a story – The making of a successful pitch & discussion on story angles
Discussion
Open house
Voluntary signup
Campus walkabout
Master Class
<li> Context setting & quick recap</li> <li> Verify an image</li> <li> Verify a video</li> <li> Geolocating content</li> <li> Finding the claim to verify (keyword search, hashtag search)</li> <li> Create GiFs as stories</li> <li> How to set up a Climate Change vertical in your horizontal newsroom</li>
Practical session
Comic story session – How to make data stories more appealing
COP: Past, present & future, tense
The relevance of COP – India's position on various aspects
Finding the gap
Climate change – The missing discourse in the Indian Parliament
Open session
<li> The Checklist</li> <li> Parking lot</li>
Wrap up
<li> Vote of Thanks Handover of certificates</li> <li> POST TEST</li>
