How to be a digital journalist: A one-day bootcamp

This course brings together some of the Guardian's most experienced journalists to show you how to make the best use of new technology, social platforms and digital sources. Using examples from some of the Guardian's award-winning multimedia reports, we explore how to tell a story from multiple angles and present data and eyewitness testimony in compelling new formats.

Course content

• Senior Guardian feature writer Jon Henley on using social media, visual storytelling and interactive multimedia
• Former Guardian Comment editor Becky Gardiner on pitching comment articles and feature
• Guardian journalist and author Shiv Malik on open journalism and hot to integrate social media skills into your reporting
• Journalist and news reporter Peter Walker on how news reporting has changed the digital age
• Award-winning news report Alexandra Topping on capturing the imaginatoon of readers through digital campaigns

This course is for you if...

• You're an aspiring journalist who wants to learn the most effective ways to tell stories in the digital age
• You're an experienced print or online journalist and want to expand your digital skillset
• You work for an NGO, lobby group or similar and need to submit advocacy pieces to comment pages and websites

Tutor profiles

Jon Henley is a senior Guardian feature writer and former foreign correspondent who has reported from the paper from western and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic states, Afghanistan, west Africa and south America. He was the paper's Paris correspondent for nearly 10 years. His work has been shortlisted for several awards including Feature Writer of the Year and Best Digital Innovation. His work using Twitter to report the effects of the economic crisis on ordinary people in southern Europe has won international recognition, and he also led the Guardian's groundbreaking and award-winning multimedia interactive Firestorm.

Peter Walker has been a journalist for 15 years and is a news reporter for the Guardian. He previously worked for the Press Association and Agence France-Presse in London, Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris, and freelanced for CNN and the BBC, among others. Peter has reported from countries including North Korea, Iraq and Kosovo, and he formerly worked as a news editor covering politics, business and education news. At the Guardian he also runs the popular Bike blog.

Becky Gardiner joined the Guardian in 1998 as Women's editor. She was Comment editor from 2010 until April 2014, and has held a number of other positions including Education editor, deputy editor of G2 and launch editor of Family. Becky is now a senior lecturer, teaching journalism at Goldsmiths University in London.

Shiv Malik is an investigative journalist for the Guardian and the co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth. Shiv started his career after winning a bursary from the Guardian’s Scott Trust and went on to write for the New Statesman, Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday among others. He is also co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation, which seeks to find solutions to economic imbalances between those of different age groups in society. You can see Shiv’s work for the Guardian here.

Alexandra Topping is an award-winning news reporter at the Guardian. She lead the reporting for the Guardian's ground-breaking Global Media Campaign to End FGM, which engaged more than half a million readers and has impacted policy in three continents. Alexandra started at the Guardian eight years ago, before which she worked at the Washington Post in its Paris and London bureay. She is passionate about gender rights, social justice and Everton FC.

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