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Event Roundup, July 23
By Erika Owens
Posted onGet your nominations in for the ONA Community Award, plus upcoming events!
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How We Built (and Nurtured) a Newsroom Product Team
By Jessica Morrison and Amanda Yarnell
Posted onWhen 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.
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Event Roundup, July 8
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s SRCCON this week, plus a couple of ONA fellowship deadlines today.
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Dollars for Data Journalism: Q&A with Stephen Stirling
By Erika Owens and Stephen Stirling
Posted onA Q&A with NJ.com about why and how they decided to sell the data behind the Force Report.
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Event Roundup, July 1
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe 10th Mozilla Festival is coming up, plus a bunch of other conference deadlines.
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Things You Made, June 28
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How We Visualized an Election with No Political Parties
By Josh Rayman
Posted onDesigning a process and visual style, for covering parliamentary elections in Afghanistan
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Learning the Best Ways to Grow Our Local News Subscribers
By Anika Anand
Posted onWe’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.
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Event Roundup, June 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Latino Media Summit is this week, plus some upcoming events and deadlines!
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Things You Made, June 14
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How We Improved Visual Storytelling with Templates that You Can Use, Too
By Robin Kwong
Posted onHow the Financial Times improved visual storytelling at scale, across the newsroom.
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Event Roundup, June 10
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s IRE this week. Join us in Houston, and get your OJA application in!
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How to Make Evergreen Content Work for Your Newsroom
By Haley Correll
Posted onMake your existing content live on and on, with a simple spreadsheet.
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Event Roundup, June 3
By Erika Owens
Posted onJoin us for a discussion at IRE next week, plus a bunch of upcoming meetups and deadlines.
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Things You Made, May 31
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.
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Hacking Our Hiring: What You Can Do Right Now
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onSuggestions for getting started, if you want to hack your hiring based on our series.
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Event Roundup, May 20
By Erika Owens
Posted onSo many upcoming deadlines, including for API’s Community Listening Fellowship. Plus, many meetups.
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Rituals, Norms and Other Ways to Build a Healthy Work Culture
By Brittany Mayes
Posted onHow to lay the groundwork for a healthy team at work.
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Things You Made, May 17
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.
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Why We Issued a Newsroom Diversity Report on Day One
By Erika Owens
Posted onOur conversation with Audrey Carlsen and Hasani Gittens of The City.