<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Date: <b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> 14th July 2020<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></b>Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM CEST, 1:00 – 2:00 PM UTC<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Duration: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">1 hour (</span><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">40 min session and 20 min Question Answers)<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></b>Registration link: <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7324243184717036811" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7324243184717036811</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Brief about the session:</span> The humongous amount of digital data available in the media ecosystem makes it important for journalists to create sense out of this massive information for the consumers. This is often made possible by explaining the background, significance and context of the information. Decoding the ‘signal from the noise’ is probably more important for news consumers than access to information itself. The availability of massive data is both a blessing and a challenge to journalists. They do not have to rely on sources who have access to information for news leads, the amount of data available can be readily accessed to create news stories on every conceivable topic. Data is used both as a source and a tool. However this requires newer skills from journalists to access reliable data, analyse it and present it in a manner which is useful for consumers.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">The session will deal with accessing public data, analysing it through simple spreadsheet techniques and creating attractive stories out of it through standard narrative journalism techniques.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700"><img class="gmail-wp-image-3819 gmail-size-medium gmail-alignright" src="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Uma-Shankar-Pandey-223x300.png" alt="" width="223" height="300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: right; display: inline;">Name of the Speaker: </span>Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Designation:</span> Associate Professor and Head<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Affiliation:</span> Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata. Before joining academics, he was a senior Journalist with English daily The Asian Age, Kolkata.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">An Editorial Board Member of a number of International Journals, he has published over 20 papers and has authored and edited four books.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">He has conducted training programmes and workshops for corporate communicators, teachers, journalists and students at different parts of the country on themes including Data Journalism, Conversational Intelligence, Media Literacy, Social Network Analysis, Journalists’ Job Satisfaction, Framing of Election news etc.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Asha</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">___________________________</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt">Open Science for a Global Transformation:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3935461" target="_blank">CODATA-coordinated submission to the UNESCO Open Science Consultation</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt">International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020, 22-23 Oct:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <a href="https://conference.codata.org/conference/FAIRconvergence2020/registration/" target="_blank">Registration Open</a> | <a href="https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/" target="_blank">Call for sessions, posters and lightning talks, deadline 20 July</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt">CODATA Virtual General Assembly 2020:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <a href="https://codata.org/events/general-assembly/general-assembly-2020/" target="_blank">Report on Voting, Presentations, Supporting Documents and Recording</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">CODATA Connect and Data Science Journal Essay Competition:</b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="https://codata.org/essay-competition-open-data-challenges-to-address-global-and-societal-issues/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">deadline 31 July 2020.</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt">CODATA Connect Smart and Sustainable Cities Datathon: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://codata.org/smart-and-sustainable-cities-datathon/" target="_blank">register by 31 August</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://codata.org/blog/2020/07/01/june-2020-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><b>June 2020 publications</b></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> in the </span><a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">CODATA Data Science Journal</a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stay in touch with CODATA:</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Stay up to date with CODATA activities: </span><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">join the CODATA International News list</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  </span><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Follow us on social media! </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CODATANews" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/codata.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Facebook</a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> - </span><a href="https://www.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