By Abubakar Adamu
The Stallion Times Editor-in-Chief, and Project Coordinator of G-DRIP, Mr Isyaku Ahmed has called on the Journalists to promote anti-corruption, gender and social inclusion, transparency and accountability toward enhancing good governance.
The Editor-in-Chief, made the call, at Data Journalism and Media Standard training for 40 Journalists selected in Kano.
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He said the aim of the training was to enrich capacity of Kano Journalists to improve their investigative reports.
He further said the Training was organised by the Stallion Times, through its project, “Get Involved, Dialogue and Improve (G-DRIP)” with the support of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, (WSCIJ) and the MacArthur Foundation.
He said Data Journalists use numerical data, digital information, and online analytics to discover and write stories.
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“Through the use of technology and software programs, journalists can develop and include infographics and data visualizations to develop a report’s narrative
“It is not just spreadsheets where journalists can find information worthy of the news.
“Other data acquisition methods include website scraping, filing freedom of information requests, hunting and gathering different complex data formats.”
Isah Ali Musa, a Research Scholar, at Digital Forensic Research Lab. Atlantic Council, took the media practitioners through data gathering, analysis, and visualization of data in storytelling.
He added that data journalism, which represented facts, would aid the public to get the right information that they could use to hold the government accountable.
