Our eyes are open to the constant uphill battles our news organizations are facing. Here are some tips to help you navigate as a leader.

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.

In this third iteration of the News Nerd Survey, we hear from 603 respondents about their work in the field.

Where to find the data, how to explore it, and questions to ask to report the story for your community.

When news organizations say they support diversity efforts but their actions say otherwise, teams and communities lose faith.

Get free peer mentoring support for reporting on science stories. Apply by February 8.

From faster work that others can replicate to multi-story databases, here’s what I learned during my fellowship with a data team.

Reflections and lessons from organizing Perspectives LA during ONA 2022.

To get beyond short-lived gains, it’s time to commit to vision-driven goals that lead to real results.

Poor record-keeping foiled our FOIA plans. Here’s what we learned through the simple, tedious process of creating data by hand.

Leaders of color are used to a no-win situation. What doesn’t break us only makes us stronger!

Our Scholarships+ program offers funding to help people pay for events and programs that develop their work as a journalist with data and code. This recap of the programs we helped people take part in in 2022 is part of our commitment to transparency and trust in our work—and we also think it’s a great source of ideas for community members who want to keep building their networks and careers.

Four steps you can take to catch errors earlier and bulletproof your work, even if you don’t have a colleague to help out.

What to do before you hire your BIPOC candidates.

Highlights from how care has shown up in the past year, inside and outside of work.

Leaders in news organizations have a chance to change the way we treat independent journalists.

How the LAT Data and Graphics team uses GitHub Actions to keep code and data in one place, and track scraper history for free.

“Small data”—the kind you might have to get out and collect yourself—can uncover the deeply personal history of a place.

There aren’t easy fixes for a systemic issue like polarization—but there are steps we can all take to encourage civil discourse.

Now’s the time to check in with leaders of color.