Articles
Projects walkthroughs, tool teardowns, interviews, and more.
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Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development
By Madison Karas
Posted onSpending a month building coding skills gave me the language—and confidence—for better communication across teams.
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Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found
By Sanjin Ibrahimovic
Posted onA side-by-side comparison of eight tools for extracting tabular data from documents, using multiple kinds of documents, from DocumentCloud.
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How to tell good LGBTQ+ stories with bad data
By Jasmine Mithani and Kae Petrin
Posted onConcepts and methods to help you do rigorous journalism even when the data is tricky, Part 1.
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7 tips for data-driven journalism about LGBTQ+ communities
By Jasmine Mithani and Kae Petrin
Posted onConcepts and methods to help you do rigorous journalism even when the data is tricky, Part 2.
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Fact-checking in 2024? Five tools to help with research and promotion
By Erica Ryan
Posted onNewsrooms often devote more time to fact-checking during election season—for good reason! These tools can make the most of yours.
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By what metric?
By Nausheen Husain, Dhrumil Mehta, and Aarushi Sahejpal
Posted onJoin the Data Journalism Teachers’ Club–a new place for data journalism educators to learn together.
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Much of what made social media feel special to journalists is gone. What now?
By Aditi Mukund
Posted onAt SRCCON 2023, we talked about the spaces we’ve lost, why we miss them, and what we can do to take power back from platforms.
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How we used an FOI project to show the public the power they can wield
By Tom Cardoso
Posted onSecret Canada is an investigation and a public-service teaching tool. Advice about record requests can inspire your readers, too.
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Advice for sharing security advice
By Martin Shelton
Posted onHow to tailor guidance for your audience, and come up with a plan for keeping it up-to-date.
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Covering trans issues well just means doing journalism well
By Kae Petrin
Posted onWe need more accurate and nuanced stories, and the Trans Journalists Association is building a community and resources to help.
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Project Diary: How we made the Wage Theft Monitor
By Max Siegelbaum
Posted onHow Documented fought for data about businesses that have stolen from their workers, and what you need to know to do this kind of project in your state.
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Our search for the best OCR tool in 2023, and what we found
By Sanjin Ibrahimovic
Posted onA side-by-side comparison of five OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents, from DocumentCloud.
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Product manager diary: Learning to work with vendors and development teams outside of your organization
By Madison Karas
Posted onHow do you balance clear communication, changing needs, decisions that predate you—all while you’re staring down a million support tickets?
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A lean newsroom’s blueprint for gathering secure tips
By Halle Stockton
Posted onHow we wired together Signal, Twilio, and a spare cell phone to create a newsroom number for sources who need privacy.
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Magic spreadsheets to help you investigate neighborhood inequities
By Leon Yin
Posted onHere’s how to use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code.
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Collaboration can harness the power of technology and data for better story discovery
By Marnette Federis
Posted onAn event report from Story Discovery At Scale, bringing people together to work on tools and sustainability for local journalism.
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How newsrooms pay journalist-coders today
By Dilcia Mercedes
Posted onAn update based on responses from over 600 journalists.
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Using data to investigate inequality, and building a network to find solutions
By Delgerzaya Delgerjargal
Posted onAt a recent Open Data Day hackathon in Mongolia, a community grew around their exploration of place, pollution, and transit.
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How to tell the story of your work (or, one journalist’s process for career success)
By Michelle Faust Raghavan
Posted onFrom goal-setting and short reflections to perfecting your personal narrative, here’s a five-step process that keeps you ready for opportunities.
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Choose Your Own Mad Libs (or, how you can plug data into automated stories and free up lots of reporting time)
By Mike Stucka
Posted onFrom housing prices to weather to employment, templates can generate hundreds of stories at once about numbers that people care about.