Articles
Projects walkthroughs, tool teardowns, interviews, and more.
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Last Call for SRCCON 2018
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Posted onOur call for attendees closes Friday, April 20.
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Introducing the Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom
By Amanda Hickman, Kevin O’Gorman, and Ryan Pitts
Posted onA practical, collaboratively written guide that everyone in newsrooms can use.
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The Sound of Disparity
By Jim Briggs and Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onInside Reveal’s incredible data sonification project, bringing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem to our ears.
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Event Roundup, April 16
By Erika Owens
Posted onA couple meetups this week, plus looking ahead to May events.
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The Perks of Being a Quitter
By Stephen Stirling
Posted onEverything was going very wrong, and so we gave up on our best idea.
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Event Roundup, April 9
By Erika Owens
Posted onLast chance to answer our SRCCON call for participation, plus other events this week!
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Things You Made, April 5
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.
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An Accessibility Starter Kit is Already at Your Fingertips
By Thomas Wilburn
Posted onYour built-in screen reader is waiting for you, on your smartphone.
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Event Roundup, April 2
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt is time to tell us how you’d like to participate in SRCCON! Plus, other events and things.
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How We Publish Live Chats with Slack
By Andrew Briz
Posted onCreating a newsroom tool from scratch.
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Event Roundup, March 26
By Erika Owens
Posted onGet your pitches into ONA, plus, meetups!
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Spring Forward
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWhat spring looks like for Source.
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Event Roundup, March 19
By Erika Owens
Posted onDeadlines coming soon plus a whole bunch of meetups.
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Shift Change
By Erin Kissane
Posted onI am excited about where you are going, and it has been a gift to spend five years in service of your work.
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Things You Made, March 13
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur biweekly roundup of interactive and data journalism you may have missed.
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Event Roundup, March 12
By Erika Owens
Posted onTime to get your pitches into ONA, plus meetups around the world this week.
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Source + OpenNews at NICAR 2018
By Erin Kissane
Posted onLindsay 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!
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Event Roundup, March 5
By Erika Owens
Posted onYou know what week it is.
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How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data
By Christine Zhang
Posted onHow 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.
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Your Interactive Makes Me Sick
By Eileen Webb
Posted onPicture 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.