We teach data skills, make things with code and bring journalists together at The Pond.
Founder Frosch
Ada is a freelance data journalist & trainer. In the past 10 years she has worked on many data driven stories with newsrooms all around Europe, including Correctiv, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe and OCCRP. She is also responsible for the data skills track on the Dataharvest conference.
She believes data skills are attainable for everyone, whatever their starting point. She began Data Frosch after she bought a frog hat.
Trainer and mentor
Jonathan has been a freelance trainer specialising in data journalism since 2010. Before that, he spent twenty years at the BBC as a researcher, World Service journalist and one of the heads of World Service Training.
He is Arena Academy’s lead trainer, works with the Dataharvest team and trains journalists through the Arena Climate Network.
Community engagement
Sarah is a freelance journalist from Germany who is particularly interested in cross-border collaboration, investigative research and data-driven, interdisciplinary projects. At the Pond, she is helping with community building and engagement, and is happy to chat with data frosches from all disciplines and backgrounds about their data work needs and ideas for the data journalism community.
R&D / Hacker
Johan is a self-taught software and data engineer with more than fifteen years of experience, mostly with organisations doing public-interest work.
He builds data pipelines, AI agents and interfaces for working with data. He leads the EveryPolitician project at OpenSanctions and previously worked as a full-stack developer at Follow the Money.
Emotional support
Dinkel is our emotional well being frosch. She is a calming presence, patient listener and gives high quality hugs. She usually hangs around and makes sure there’s always a frog in the room.
