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White screen with black IU trident appears. Text: The Media School. Indiana University.
Video of Elaine Monaghan standing in a classroom. Title text: Elaine Monghan, professor of practice.
Monaghan: My name is Elaine Monaghan, and I'm a professor of practice at The Media School, I'm from Scotland, as you can hear. My background is as a journalist with Reuters, where I worked for many years and then other places as well.
Video of Monaghan lecturing a class.
Here at IU, I teach courses in journalism and public relations.
Video of Monaghan standing in a classroom.
Monaghan: And I'm particularly focused on work that we're doing to construct a data journalism program, which is available as a concentration for Master of Science students at the graduate level. We just launched it.
Video of students sitting in Monaghan’s class working on laptops and listening to her speak.
Monaghan: We've just received permission to run the program. It's one of five concentrations within the M.S. in media.
Video of Monaghan teaching in a classroom.
Monaghan: What makes it distinct from the other concentrations is that while it's housed at The Media School, it's taught collaboratively with our colleagues at The Luddy School, which is the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.
Video of students walking in front of Luddy.
Monaghan: What's really, really fun about this collaborative work that we've been doing is that you have an opportunity as faculty from different areas within different interests to spend time talking about research and also about education, which is the side I'm most focused on.
Video of interior of Luddy Hall.
Monaghan: We have a collaboration partly funded not just by the university, but by the Knight Foundation,which has funded an organization called the Observatory on Social Media, which is a place where we visualize the spread of disinformation and of information in general online.
Video of Monaghan standing in a classroom.
Monaghan: And we have tools there that the public can use in order to study these questions for themselves in order to understand what weak information actually looks like and how to spot it, how to measure that and visualize it. So that's the research side. And this initiative, the data journalism program, is our educational side. It's where we are putting our heads together and coming up with ways to teach data science elements in a way that allows people to tell stories in a journalistic context and vice versa. It's a space where people who are focused more on data science can also learn how to tell stories using their knowledge.
Video close up of whiteboard in Monaghan’s classroom. Words: color coding: discipline, race, gender, inequity.
Video of Monaghan standing in the classroom.
Monaghan: There are so many careers now where a basic ability to use data, to be data literate, is absolutely crucial. We have some students who have already gone through a program like this because some of the courses that we're offering have been available in the past. But in the past, as a student, you had to kind of carve your own path if you like. We've carved the path for the students now.
Black screen with IU trident. Text: Indiana University. indiana.edu.
