Workshops & Talks

I teach workshops on data journalism, information design and visual storytelling.

01

Designing for Small Screens

A hands-on workshop for redesigning desktop data stories for six-inch screens.

Audience

Journalists, designers and newsroom teams

Duration

2 hours

Format

Hands-on workshop

Includes

  • Slides
  • Paper exercises
  • Mobile-first checklist
  • Peer critique

02

Climate Data Journalism

Using data to find, question and communicate climate stories.

Audience

Early-career and senior journalists

Duration

3 × 75 minutes

Format

Theory, dataset inspection and story development

Includes

  • Slides
  • Sample dataset
  • Reading list
  • Story exercises

03

Visual + Interactive Journalism

Using form, sequence and interaction to help readers understand evidence.

Audience

Journalists, designers and newsroom teams

Duration

75 minutes

Format

Theory, critique and applied examples

Includes

  • Slides
  • Examples
  • Checklist

04

Intro to Computational Journalism

Learning to use code as a reporting tool, one notebook cell at a time.

Audience

Journalism students with no coding experience

Duration

Multi-session course

Format

Notebook-led lecture and practice

Includes

  • Web slides
  • Colab notebook
  • Classroom dataset
  • Practice task

Speaker bio

Areena Arora is an editorial coder and data journalist at The Hindu. Her work sits at the intersection of reporting, code, information design and visual storytelling. She previously reported on public education in Tennessee and now develops interactive and data-driven journalism in India. She also teaches workshops on mobile-first design, data journalism and visual storytelling.

Contact

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