Khalid Khattak

Khalid Khattak

Khalid Khattak, is a journalist based in Lahore, Pakistan. He is the founder of Pakistan's first and only data journalism specific initiative Data Stories https://www.datastories.pk/. He is in the profession for 17 years now and presently works for The News International as a Staff Reporter. Khalid is a 2013 Daniel Pearl Fellow and has worked at The Wall Street Journal (DC Bureau) and the Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, Minnesota). He has been a visiting faculty at Punjab University’s Institute of Communication Studies. He is a council member of Lahore Press Club and a member of Punjab Union of Journalists.

Lately, Khalid has been actively engaged in coding and is honing his skills in R programming language for data/text analysis.