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Event Roundup, Apr 3
By Erika Owens
Posted onToday’s deadline day for Knight Prototype Fund and Matter Seven. You have till Friday to apply to the Data Journalism Awards and pitch to SRCCON!
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Subverting the Story Model
By Tyler Fisher
Posted onLet’s articulate the problem. There are too many damn Trump stories. The emergence of products like What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, the New York Times’ The Daily and FiveThirtyEight’s TrumpBeat are a clear indication that audiences are clamoring for a more distilled, high-level view of everything happening at once.
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Same Diff: Trump’s Budget Proposal
By David Yanofsky
Posted onThe White House budget proposal was released on March 16, and while the document itself was “skinnier” than in years past, news organizations’ efforts in parsing it were as robust as ever. Let’s take a look at how they found their way into and visually reported out the 60-page document.
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NICAR When You’re Not New Anymore
By Andrew Nguyen
Posted onWhen you’re no longer new to NICAR, it’s time to start mentoring and collaborating with students and newsrooms who need your help. Here’s one perspective on making the jump from newbie to veteran.
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Things You Made, March 28
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Pudding, the Sun Sentinel, and more.
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How I Learned to NICAR
By Kristin Hussey
Posted onWhat NICAR 2017 looked like through the eyes of a longtime freelance reporter who needed more data skills.
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To NICAR, With Love
By Lo Bénichou
Posted onI am queer. I am a women. I am Jewish. I am mixed. And I work in the news in Trump’s America.
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Five Tips to Make the Most of NICAR
By Stephanie Lamm
Posted onThe Computer Assisted Reporting conference brings together digital, data-driven journalists from all over the world.
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Event Roundup, Mar 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s time to pitch sessions to SRCCON, plus a bunch of meetups this week.
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Cleaner, Smarter Spreadsheets Start with Structure
By Sandhya Kambhampati
Posted onMake better spreadsheets by thinking about structure, from the beginning.
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Event Roundup, Mar 20
By Erika Owens
Posted onA bunch of meetups this week, plus end of March deadlines approach: get your applications in for ProPublica Data Institute and Open Source Bridge.
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Ms. Management: This Isn’t the Diverse Newsroom You’re Looking For
By Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Posted onThe first column in the “Ms. Management” series: how newsroom managers can take more tangible steps to increase newsroom diversity.
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Things You Made, March 14
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from the Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica, Reveal, Univision, and more.
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Event Roundup, Mar 13
By Erika Owens
Posted onTons of local meetups this week, plus deadlines including for our travel scholarship.
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Our IKEA-Inspired Kit for Newsroom Processes
By Robin Kwong
Posted onAs special projects editor at the Financial TImes, I created a project management toolkit for the newsroom, designed to be useful to reporter and editors. My hope is that by doing so we can produce better journalism, create room for experimentation, and learn from our experiences.
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Shields Up: You Are Worthy of a Data Breach
By Martin Shelton
Posted onYou know what’s the biggest security threat to journalists? Modesty.
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Event Roundup, Mar 7
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s the Internet Freedom Festival this week in Spain, plus check out the upcoming deadlines.
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Introducing the Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom
By Lindsay Muscato and Ryan Pitts
Posted onToday we’re thrilled to announce the first release of our community-built guidebook, The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom.
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Event Roundup, Feb 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onYep, this week is NICAR, but that’s not all coming up in March.
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How We Made Nu Source
By Erin Kissane and Ryan Pitts
Posted onHow our small team redesigned Source, with a design refresh and a new navigation and structure that matches the way we publish now.