Press Release: Campus Reporter of The CJID Trains 30 Campus Journalists On Data Journalism

The Campus Reporter Project of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development
(CJID) has commenced a data journalism training for campus journalists. The project has
selected thirty (30) successful applicants from over two hundred and twenty (220)
applications submitted by campus journalists across Nigeria.

The training program began on Saturday, 15 April and will run for six weeks, with six
sessions scheduled between 15 April and 27 May 2023.

Facilitated by Kehinde Ogunyale, the training will introduce campus journalists to data
journalism and help simplify the application and visualisation of data in storytelling. They
would also be taught how to source data, extract critical information for quality reportage
and apply data visualisation tools to produce cutting-edge stories. 

The facilitator, Kehinde Ogunyale, is an alumnus of the Campus Reporter Network and a
climate and data journalist with over four years of experience working across several
media platforms in Nigeria and international media. Mr Ogunyale tells stories with
visualisation and infographics and works with tools like Flourish, Datawrapper, Piktochart,
Infographic, Canva, Figma etc. He is a fellow with Civic Hive, AIJC, ICIR-OCRP, and Climate
Tracker, among others.

Towards applying the new skills, the campus journalists will be awarded story grants to
produce data stories from issues in their immediate communities. More on the impact of
the training can be found here.

Signed:
Busola Ajibola
Deputy Director, CJID