A three-day Residential Workshop
- Date: 02nd June to 04th June 2026
- Venue: USO House, USO Marg, 6, Special Institutional Area, New Delhi
Data is a crucial tool for making sense of the world. It is crucial for reading the contours of the economy. It reveals the undercurrents of finance that often stay hidden in plain sight. But knowing how to read it, interrogate it, and turn it into a story that holds power accountable is a skill most of us are never formally taught.Ā
Stories in Numbers is a three-day residential workshop designed to help with precisely that.
Over three intensive days, participants will work with investigative journalists, public finance specialists, and data practitioners to build hands-on fluency: reading government budgets and audit reports, tracking how public money moves (and disappears), navigating financial databases, and understanding the legal and editorial safeguards that make data journalism defensible. The programme moves from the foundations to the feel of it, using real datasets, not just hypotheticals. It will also try to unravel how data is often obfuscated, misinterpreted, and even withheld to bend the truth.
The workshop is designed for journalists, researchers, and civil society practitioners who work with data in some form but want to go deeper, into sharper analysis, stronger storytelling, and more accountable public interest work.
The workshop is designed as a hands-on, practice-oriented learning space.
A Certificate of Completion will be provided to all participants who successfully attend the workshop.
Accommodation & Fees
Participants will be charged a nominal fee of ā¹3000, which partially covers food and accommodation during the workshop.
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Accommodation and meals will be provided for selected participants.
ā Travel costs will need to be borne by participants.
Shortlisted applicants will receive payment details via email.
Workshop Details
Format: Residential Workshop
Duration: 3 Days
Location: New Delhi
Primary Language: English
Participants are required to bring their own laptop for the workshop.
For more details, see here.
Organised by: Centre for Financial Accountability | Knowledge Partner: The Reportersā Collective
