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Science and Statistics Courses for Journalists

The Royal Statistical Society of the United Kingdom is offering two free online courses for journalists using science and statistics in their reports.

“Science for Journalists” is about the process of finding scientific news, the right questions to  ask, and the  experts to be interviewed for these stories. “Statistics for Journalists” helps reporting on basic statistics used in many reports such as surveys, polls, and percentages. These courses are based on presentations developed through the RSS Science Journalism Program developed and delivered by volunteers to journalists and journalism students across the UK within the last five years.

The courses feature freely accessible presentations, exercises and other resources, and will take 20-30 minutes each to accomplish. For more information, visit this page.

Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism in Harvard, in partnership with the Knight Foundation, is now accepting applications to the Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships.

Journalists, publishers, programmers, designers, media analysts, academics and others interested in making programs and tools for the advancement of journalism are encouraged to apply. At least five individuals will be selected to spend up to 12 weeks at Harvard during the 2016 calendar year to work on special research projects. Fellows will have access to resources in Harvard such as libraries, research centers, and scholars.

All visiting fellows are expected to be in residence in Cambridge during their study and to present their findings to the Nieman community at the end of the research period.

Deadline for submission of applications is on October 31. For more details, visit the Nieman Fellowships page.