It is reported that China Communication University, China Renmin University, Tsinghua University and other 12 universities in China have set up data journalism courses. From a global perspective, data journalism, as an independent course, is a highlight of the educational reform of journalism and communication in recent years.

According to the report, experts said that the practice of data journalism education in Columbia University reflects to some extent that data journalism education will develop towards a more perfect independent major after experiencing a short-term project or research direction of a certain major.

After the exploration stage, data news education will be gradually put in place with the understanding of data news by universities and teachers, and the reserve of relevant educational talents will also be improved. Data journalism education will become the common demand of universities all over the country, and the curriculum system of data journalism education will be more systematic and standardized.

In addition, the scale of data news production will prompt the industry to produce a more standard and detailed data news production process, and the exchanges and interactions between academic circles and the industry will be closer. While sending more talents to the industry through education, academia will also cooperate with the industry in more forms, and news production units will adopt students' data news works and publish them daily, and so on.

As one of the ways of reporting, data news must constantly inject new elements into the traditional teaching content of news communication to adapt to the development and progress of society. Data journalism education should also be an effective response to the new changes in the news industry!