Hi, my name is VERONIKA

Professional experience

2022-present ᛫ Data Vis Writer @ Datawrapper

I write for the blog, website, and social media, publish the weekly curated Data Vis Dispatch, and edit colleagues' Weekly Charts.

2021-2022 ᛫ Researcher @ Tortoise Media

Development of methodology, data collection and analysis, communication with companies, editorial and partnership support.

2019 ᛫ Data Journalism Intern @ Dark Side

Internship at ​ Česko v datech ​ and ​Evropa v datech ​ data journalistic  initiatives - sourcing and cleaning open source data (Eurostat, World  Bank, Czech Statistical Office etc.), finding stories, drafting and writing  articles, preparing visualizations  Tools: Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau Public 

2018 ᛫ Project Manager @ Association for Social Responsibility

Administrative and organizing support for projects (e.g. Women's Day,  SDGs Awards, CSR breakfasts), writing press releases and reports for the  website, translating inspiring business stories & news articles

2017-2018 ᛫ Journalist @ Echelon Magazine

Pitching story ideas, doing research, finding sources, planning and  conducting interviews, writing feature stories (editorial & advertorial) about Sri Lanka’s businesses and economy

2017 ᛫ Content Writer @ Antyra Solutions

Writing content for websites, social media, newsletters, blog posts etc,  creating branding style guides, optimizing content according to SEO  principles for a diverse set of clients (mainly in luxury hospitality) 

Education

2018-2020 ᛫ Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media and Globalization:

2019-20 ᛫ City, University of London (specialization in Data & finance)

Courses: Data Journalism, Advanced Data and Coding, Social & Digital Journalism, Fundamentals of Financial Journalism

Dissertation: Climate change coverage in the financial press

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2018-19 ᛫ Aarhus University & Danish School of Media and Journalism

Courses: Reporting Global Change, Globalisation and World Order,  Social Science Methods for Journalists, Analytical Journalism, Media and  Journalism Research in the Context of Globalization

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2014-2018 ᛫ Bachelor’s degree in Marketing Communication and Public Relations @ Charles University

Other courses:

2020 ᛫ Digital Academy: Data @ Czechitas

A three-month (300 hrs) data bootcamp covering data analysis, visualization, modelling etc. using Python, SQL, Tableau, PowerBI among others

2020 ᛫ Equity & ethics in data journalism MOOC @ Knight Center

Hands-on approaches to getting your data right (covers biases, common mistakes & solutions)

2020 ᛫ Bloomberg Market Concepts

An interactive introduction to financial markets
(Economic Indicators, Currencies, Fixed Income, Equities + the Bloomberg Terminal)

2019 ᛫ Data Journalism and Visualization MOOC @ Knight Center

How to find and get data, prepare data, find stories in data, visualize data and more.

2018 ᛫ Become An Expert Fact Checker and Hoax Buster! @ TOL (Tranisitions)

Daily sessions by Fergus Bell, Christiaan Triebert and Czech Radio's data team.