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  1. Things You Made, Oct 25

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  2. How 21 Newsrooms Pooled Funds for Texas Public Data

    By Matt Dempsey

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    High fees for public data are a huge problem. Here’s how 21 newsrooms in Texas banded together to buy one $3,500 voter database.

  3. Event Roundup, October 22

    By Erika Owens

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    We extended the SRCCON:POWER deadline, plus we’ll be in London this week!

  4. Front-Page Voter Registration: Q&A with the Ithaca Times

    By Marshall Hopkins and Lindsay Muscato

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    A Q&A with Marshall Hopkins from the Ithaca Times about journalists helping voters overcome hurdles to civic participation.

  5. Event Roundup, October 15

    By Erika Owens

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    We’ve got SRCCON:POWER and MozFest House unconference events coming up, and other events and deadlines.

  6. Things You Made, Oct 11

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup

  7. Event Roundup, October 8

    By Erika Owens

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    MozFest, SRCCON:POWER, AI Challenge deadline, so much going on this week.

  8. The Value of Human Text Analysis: Q&A with Alvin Chang

    By Alvin Chang and Lindsay Muscato

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    Alvin Chang of Vox talks to Source about analyzing transcripts of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings and finding what could be measured.

  9. Things You Made, Sept 28

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup

  10. Event Roundup, September 24

    By Erika Owens

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    So many meetups this week!

  11. You’re Not Really Listening

    By Amy L. Kovac-Ashley

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    What if our old ways of listening, as reporters, are actually barriers to the work we want to do?

  12. How We Made “Billions of Birds Migrate”

    By Brian Jacobs

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    National Geographic’s enormous bird migration interactive and how it came to be.

  13. Event Roundup, September 17

    By Erika Owens

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    TextAV is back this week, plus the NICAR19 deadline nears.

  14. Things You Made, Sept 13

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup of news nerd projects and things living in our tabs.

  15. How We Mapped 1.3m Data Points Using Mapbox

    By David Blood and Ændrew Rininsland

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    Inside our totally complex cartographic endeavor to map broadband.

  16. Things You Made, Aug 30

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  17. Our Low-Stress Guide to Working Without an Editor

    By Casey Miller

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    If you’re working without an editor, it’s important to build your own support system. Here’s a roundup of our best ideas and strategies, based on our SRCCON 2018 session.

  18. Working Together 101: How Academics & Journalists Can Collaborate

    By Laura Laderman and Sinduja Rangarajan

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    When academics and journalists collaborate, they can combine their skills to tackle complex questions and communicate the answers in ways that can have a huge impact on society.

  19. How We Built a Database from Thousands of Police Reports

    By MaryJo Webster

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    How we built our massive analysis of sexual assault cases in Minnesota, with tools that anyone on our team could use.

  20. Great Conference Sessions, the SRCCON Way

    By Brent Jones

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    How can SRCCON session facilitators make the most of their time with participants, and help everyone get the most out of the conference? I talked with several people who have facilitated sessions about what went well, what surprised them, and what helped people get most engaged.

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