Students will learn the basics of doing computer-assisted reporting in today's complex and dynamic media world. We'll work on developing marketable datadriven storytelling skills for news, enterprise and investigative coverage. Lectures will be tailored to the current state of the art in data reporting on the Web, print and broadcast platforms. The course includes hands-on training leading to proficiency in spreadsheet and database applications. Course themes include ethical and aggressive watchdog reporting, data quality, audience expectations and social media. For certain topics, we'll take a less technical and more conceptual approach. These topics include GIS mapping and the technologies that drive interactive data visualizations. We'll also examine the journalistic decisions and values that accompany data-oriented stories, including communicating appropriate levels of precision and uncertainty in narratives, polls and graphics. By the end of the course, students will be required to acquire a database, determine its journalistic merits and perform a basic analysis. Students will write a detailed story memo based on the analysis.