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  1. Last Call for SRCCON 2018

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    Our call for attendees closes Friday, April 20.

  2. Introducing the Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom

    By Amanda Hickman, Kevin O’Gorman, and Ryan Pitts

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    A practical, collaboratively written guide that everyone in newsrooms can use.

  3. The Sound of Disparity

    By Jim Briggs and Sinduja Rangarajan

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    Inside Reveal’s incredible data sonification project, bringing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem to our ears.

  4. Event Roundup, April 16

    By Erika Owens

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    A couple meetups this week, plus looking ahead to May events.

  5. The Perks of Being a Quitter

    By Stephen Stirling

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    Everything was going very wrong, and so we gave up on our best idea.

  6. Event Roundup, April 9

    By Erika Owens

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    Last chance to answer our SRCCON call for participation, plus other events this week!

  7. Things You Made, April 5

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.

  8. An Accessibility Starter Kit is Already at Your Fingertips

    By Thomas Wilburn

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    Your built-in screen reader is waiting for you, on your smartphone.

  9. Event Roundup, April 2

    By Erika Owens

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    It is time to tell us how you’d like to participate in SRCCON! Plus, other events and things.

  10. How We Publish Live Chats with Slack

    By Andrew Briz

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    Creating a newsroom tool from scratch.

  11. Event Roundup, March 26

    By Erika Owens

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    Get your pitches into ONA, plus, meetups!

  12. Spring Forward

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    What spring looks like for Source.

  13. Event Roundup, March 19

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadlines coming soon plus a whole bunch of meetups.

  14. Shift Change

    By Erin Kissane

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    I am excited about where you are going, and it has been a gift to spend five years in service of your work.

  15. Things You Made, March 13

    By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato

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    Our biweekly roundup of interactive and data journalism you may have missed.

  16. Event Roundup, March 12

    By Erika Owens

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    Time to get your pitches into ONA, plus meetups around the world this week.

  17. Source + OpenNews at NICAR 2018

    By Erin Kissane

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    Lindsay and Erin and the rest of the OpenNews crew will be in Chicago for NICAR 2018, and we’d love to see you there. Come hang out with us!

  18. Event Roundup, March 5

    By Erika Owens

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    You know what week it is.

  19. How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data

    By Christine Zhang

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    How we got the numbers on arrests of the homeless in LA, how we vetted the numbers, and, most importantly, how we found the story behind—and beyond—the numbers.

  20. Your Interactive Makes Me Sick

    By Eileen Webb

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    Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of disorientation, where the world is moving in a way your body doesn’t quite process—imagine that you feel like that all the time.

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