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Event Roundup, May 13
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s the Collaborative Journalism Summit this week, plus a bunch of upcoming deadlines.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Fair & Useful In-Person Interviews
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fifth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Our Database of Troubled Cops, and How You Can Help
By Matt Wynn
Posted onSo far, we’ve collected more than 220,000 records detailing the troubles of police, and the collection continues to grow. The data is already being shared with reporters across the USA TODAY Network of more than 100 newsrooms coast to coast. Now we’re making the same information available to you.
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Things You Made, May 3
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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A Dinner for Journalists Means More Power at the Table
By Shira Stein
Posted onAn easy way to build community starts with an invite to a casual, home-cooked meal.
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How to Keep Going: Lessons from Reporting “Heartbroken”
By Neil Bedi
Posted onWe spent most of 2018 knocking our heads against one reporting challenge after the other. Here’s how we kept going, on our Pulitzer-nominated series.
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Event Roundup, April 29
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Data Institute deadline is this week, plus other events and happenings.
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Introducing Workbench, an Open Source Platform
By Pierre Conti, Adam Hooper, and Jonathan Stray
Posted onFive great things you can do with Workbench, whether you want to scrape a site, clean data, analyze data, or learn data journalism without code.
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How to Be an Ally in the Newsroom
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onStep outside your comfort zone, step up to support your friends and colleagues, and act boldly to advocate for inclusion.
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Event Roundup, April 22
By Erika Owens
Posted onDeadline time for SRCCON, plus lots of upcoming events
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Hacking Our Hiring: Let’s Talk About Screening
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fourth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Event Roundup, April 15
By Erika Owens
Posted onA bunch of meetups coming up, plus our SRCCON call for participation is now open!
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Why National Editors Should Connect with Local Reporters
By Dana Amihere
Posted onHow and why national news orgs should find local reporters to cover stories in their own communities.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onPart of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.
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Things You Made, April 5
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Event Roundup, April 1
By Erika Owens
Posted onJournalists gather this week in Perugia, plus upcoming deadlines.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.
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Event Roundup, March 25
By Erika Owens
Posted onLots of meetups, plus the Data Journalism Awards deadline is coming up soon!
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Things You Made, March 22
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup of projects from around the journalism and code community.