Implemented by the Association of Journalists and funded by the European Union (EU) the Media for Democracy/Democracy for Media Programme (M4D) the events hosted by the project continue online due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The first of these online events started with the workshop “Introduction to Data Journalism and Online Tools”. The workshop was conducted by the Civil Society Development center (STGM) Digital Works Coordinator Mehmet Kütküt where he talked about topics such as “Advanced Google search methods, Google Alerts Tips, Tags, Key Word Analysis and Introduction to Data Journalism, Software that Does Not Require Coding to Use for Data Analysis, Downloading Data from Twitter and Content Analysis”.

Credibility of search engine statistics
Kütküt gave participants information about using open source data of Google and Twitter in writing news. Pointing out the credibility of search engines Kütküt said “People may lie during their everyday lives but they search for what they are really interested in, not what they seem to be interested in. Therefore, search engine statistics are credible.”
Please visit M4D’s YouTube channel to watch “Introduction to Data Journalism and Online Tools” workshop. Psychologist Merve Otçeken will be holding an online talk called “What do to in Crisis Management? Ways to Deal with Loss of Control” tomorrow at 16:00. To attend M4D Project’s online events, please fill out the attendance form at our website and download the application “Zoom” to access via mobile phone or computer.