"A computer is a stupid machine that can only work in the hands of smart people"
Umberto Eco
ABOUT ME
I am Clara Attene and I am a digital trainer and a data journalist.
My interest for journalism started when I was 16-years-old and I went to the stadium to watch my favourite soccer club matches, Cagliari Calcio: there I thought for the firts time that I would like to become a sport speaker.
Lately things went a little differently: I met digital technologies and economics, both often considered as tough topics. Actually I see them more as places riches in people and stories, often truly fascinating, that deserve to be told. Moreover, I consider them as two fundamental frames to understand our times.
In my experience, journalism and business are strictly connected. I work as a freelancer since 18 years and during this time I co-founded and managed several media startups: one of them was Viz&Chips, which was focused on producting data visualizations and data games.
At present, I am head of content at Good Morning Italia, another media startup which produces every day a morning briefing with the “news that matter to know at the beginning of the day.”
Last but not least, in 2015 I started working as a trainer: firstly, at two school of journalism – the Istituto per la Formazione al Giornalismo (IFG) in Urbino and the Master in Journalism “Giorgio Bocca” in Turin -, then as a soft skills trainer at Fiat Chrysler Automobilies.
A day on January 2019, I have got an email from London: it was from the Google News Lab that invited me for an interview to become the next Teaching Fellow for Italy. Since that I spent one year travelling for almost 40 thousands kilometres all around the country, meeting more than 2,500 journalists and delivering training on tools for data journalism, maps, advanced search, verification, open source intelligence and environmental journalism.
Now it’s time for a new adventure: I will be a digital trainer and I help you to discover the human side of technologies!
What I do
Digital trainer
Journalist
Digital trainer
I am a digital trainer, passioned about the “human side” of technologies.
I offer courses and consultings on how to use digital tools in journalism and communication, always bearing in mind that “computers are stupid machines which need smart people to work well.”
Journalist
I work as a journalist since 18 years and I am an expert on data journalism.
I think about journalism as a mix of contents and technologies aimed to tell people’s stories through tailor-made digital formats, built for an audience who looks for a selected and comprehensive information.
Data journalism
Training for journalists, PRs and students who want to build and/or improve their skills about how to use data to produce meaningful and contextualised data visualizations.
Visual storytelling
Training for journalists, PRs and students who want to build and/or improve their skills about how to use digital tools to produce clear and engaging visual contents.
Verification & OSINT
Training for journalists, PRs and students who want to build and/or improve their skills about how to collect and verify pieces of information (i.e. pictures, videos).
News formats and contents
I research, project and realise, even in partnership with other freelancers, media startups and newsrooms, tailor-made news formats and contents to deliver via digital channels.
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Training
The human side of data
A course to learn how to create a data visualization, keeping an eye on method and context.
Data always speaks about people and human phenomena. That’s why it is important to ask yourself the right questions that allow us to define correctly the context, select the right data and let it speak honestly.
With this course, we will learn how to:
- find data;
- analyse it;
- make a visualization;
- test the method by practical exercises.
From 1 to 4 people maximum.
On appointment, via Google Meet.
Individual course: 200 euros.
Group course: 150 euros per person.
Tailor-made consultings
A tailor-made consulting for your business, your job or your project, created together with you.
Do you want to learn or improve your skills to create a visualization aimed to inform better your audiences?
Do you want to learn how to find and verify online information?
Are you looking for an expert to work with for your digital news project and would you like to find and test something new about format and content?
Contact me for your personal tailor-made consulting!
Companies, journalists, PRs, and training bodies.
On appointment, in person (if possible) or via Google Meet.
A quote will be sent to you, according to your requests and needs.
Contact me
Do you need information on training, consultings and prices?
Or would you like to propose me a partnership to create innovative news formats and contents?
Please fill the form below: I will be back to you asap!