This article describes ongong data journalism education's action research in Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (UMN). Data journalism has become an increasingly needed skill to offset the tendency of reporting that rely solely on people statements. However, formal training at the university level on this subject is almost non-existent. UMN tried to pioneer data journalism training for journalistic students. The implementation of these courses in journalism education curriculum at the same time becomes action research to explore appropriate training and education methods on this subject. In this data journalism course tested two approaches strategis, namely collaborative learning and experiential project-based learning. Several teaching team members, collage participants, and data journalism pratitiners were interviewed and disscussed in the focus group discussion forum to provide evaluations and insights regarding the implementation of data journalism courss with the two mentioned approaches above.