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  1. Event Roundup, April 15

    By Erika Owens

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    A bunch of meetups coming up, plus our SRCCON call for participation is now open!

  2. Why National Editors Should Connect with Local Reporters

    By Dana Amihere

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    How and why national news orgs should find local reporters to cover stories in their own communities.

  3. Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?

    By Tiff Fehr

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    Part of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.

  4. Things You Made, April 5

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  5. Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  6. Event Roundup, April 1

    By Erika Owens

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    Journalists gather this week in Perugia, plus upcoming deadlines.

  7. Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.

  8. Event Roundup, March 25

    By Erika Owens

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    Lots of meetups, plus the Data Journalism Awards deadline is coming up soon!

  9. Things You Made, March 22

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup of projects from around the journalism and code community.

  10. The Totally Incomplete Guide to Finding and Publishing Data

    By Amanda Hickman

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    Whether you’re a seasoned data journalist or brand new to thinking about data as a source in your reporting, there are exceptional places to find data that you may never have considered.

  11. Event Roundup, March 18

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadline for ONA suggestions, plus a bunch of upcoming meetups.

  12. Event Roundup, March 11

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadlines for mentorship and scholarship programs, plus upcoming events.

  13. Things You Made, March 8

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  14. How We Built the News Briefing our Audience Wanted to Hear

    By Jessica Morrison

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    A new approach to product development: how we stopped building for our audience and started building with them.

  15. Event Roundup, March 4

    By Erika Owens

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    Folks are heading to Newport Beach this week for NICAR, plus a bunch of applications and conferences looking for your contributions.

  16. How We Mapped More Than 100 Years Of Wildfire History

    By Chris Hagan and Emily Zentner

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    Quantifying chaos: building Capital Public Radio’s California Wildfire History map using a CalFire geodatabase, MapBox and a whole lot of Google searching.

  17. Event Roundup, February 25

    By Erika Owens

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    NICAR is just one week away, plus livestream from Knight Media Forum, and more.

  18. Things You Made, Feb 22

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  19. Event Roundup, February 19

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadline for AAJA’s Executive Leadership program, plus some new programs to support you getting to meet in-person.

  20. Our Search for the Best OCR Tool, and What We Found

    By Ted Han and Amanda Hickman

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    We couldn’t find single side by side comparison of the most accessible OCR options, so we ran a handful of documents through seven different tools, and compared the results.

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