Yes it’s an empty room with an odd assortment of chairs. But not for long. This unassuming space is about to be transformed into a fully functioning newsroom.
Journalists from multiple news organisations will soon be at work here, digging, delving and mining for some of the most important stories to come out of South Africa.
The location is Code 4 South Africa‘s base in Cape Town where we’re working with the soon-to-launch Data Journalism Academy – Africa’s first bricks and mortar school.
There’s so much going on behind the scenes here it’s dizzying – building a new online presence, compiling training materials, bringing in tutors and participants from around the globe, setting up social media channels and more.
I’ll blog here some more over the next couple of weeks as everything gets up and running.
* This is a School of Data initiative kindly sponsored by Omidyar Network, Code for Africa, Knight Foundation and the Indigo Trust.
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