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  1. Event Roundup, July 23

    By Erika Owens

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    Get your nominations in for the ONA Community Award, plus upcoming events!

  2. How We Built (and Nurtured) a Newsroom Product Team

    By Jessica Morrison and Amanda Yarnell

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    When we started thinking about bringing a product mindset to our work, our resources weren’t growing in step with our ambitions. We started to build infrastructure that would support our work, processes that would scale, and strategies that would help us respond quickly to change.

  3. Event Roundup, July 8

    By Erika Owens

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    It’s SRCCON this week, plus a couple of ONA fellowship deadlines today.

  4. Dollars for Data Journalism: Q&A with Stephen Stirling

    By Erika Owens and Stephen Stirling

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    A Q&A with NJ.com about why and how they decided to sell the data behind the Force Report.

  5. Event Roundup, July 1

    By Erika Owens

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    The 10th Mozilla Festival is coming up, plus a bunch of other conference deadlines.

  6. Things You Made, June 28

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  7. How We Visualized an Election with No Political Parties

    By Josh Rayman

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    Designing a process and visual style, for covering parliamentary elections in Afghanistan

  8. Learning the Best Ways to Grow Our Local News Subscribers

    By Anika Anand

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    We’re always looking for the most efficient and effective ways to grow. But we’ve learned that we can’t rely on tech tools alone– we also have to make time to build human relationships.

  9. Event Roundup, June 17

    By Erika Owens

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    The Latino Media Summit is this week, plus some upcoming events and deadlines!

  10. Things You Made, June 14

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  11. How We Improved Visual Storytelling with Templates that You Can Use, Too

    By Robin Kwong

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    How the Financial Times improved visual storytelling at scale, across the newsroom.

  12. Event Roundup, June 10

    By Erika Owens

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    It’s IRE this week. Join us in Houston, and get your OJA application in!

  13. How to Make Evergreen Content Work for Your Newsroom

    By Haley Correll

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    Make your existing content live on and on, with a simple spreadsheet.

  14. Event Roundup, June 3

    By Erika Owens

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    Join us for a discussion at IRE next week, plus a bunch of upcoming meetups and deadlines.

  15. Things You Made, May 31

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.

  16. Hacking Our Hiring: What You Can Do Right Now

    By Tiff Fehr

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    Suggestions for getting started, if you want to hack your hiring based on our series.

  17. Event Roundup, May 20

    By Erika Owens

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    So many upcoming deadlines, including for API’s Community Listening Fellowship. Plus, many meetups.

  18. Rituals, Norms and Other Ways to Build a Healthy Work Culture

    By Brittany Mayes

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    How to lay the groundwork for a healthy team at work.

  19. Things You Made, May 17

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.

  20. Why We Issued a Newsroom Diversity Report on Day One

    By Erika Owens

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    Our conversation with Audrey Carlsen and Hasani Gittens of The City.

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