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Event Roundup, Aug 22
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party is this week, plus local meetups in Singapore, New York, and Johannesburg.
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Interactive Data Journalism: A One-Semester Syllabus
By Jonathan Stray
Posted onData journalism draws on a remarkable array of skills—everything from statistics to graphic design to FOIA requests.
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Source Project Roundup, Aug 16
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onHere’s a handful of what we’ve been inspired by lately: new angles on the Olympics, an almanac of American national parks, striking maps of change in Delhi, and more.
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Event Roundup, Aug 15
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Ponyter-NABJ leadership program application is due today, plus a bunch of upcoming Hacks/Hackers events.
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Event Roundup, Aug 9
By Erika Owens
Posted onStoryology this week in Australia, plus AAJA in Las Vegas and mapping in London.
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Source Project Roundup, Aug 5
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWe’re back from SRCCON with a bunch of links. Plus, here’s a sampling of recent projects that we especially appreciated—athletics, annotations, and aerial views.
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Event Roundup, Aug 2
By Erika Owens
Posted onSRCCON is over, but you can catch a reprise session in NYC today, plus the NABJ/NAHJ conference starts tomorrow.
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Hello from SRCCON 2016
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Posted onSource is in Portland this week for SRCCON 2016. Here’s how you can follow along with us.
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A 3D Walkthrough for Breaking News
By Eli J. Murray
Posted onWe knew we wanted to tell the story in a way that was more concrete than just words on a page. We decided to create a 3D graphic that would tell the story of that night’s events.
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Event Roundup, July 25
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s SRCCON this week, which means we’ll be in Portland, OR organizing sessions and a bunch of remote participation options.
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Guri VR: Virtual Reality for the Rest of Us
By Dan Zajdband
Posted onHere are three tools for making VR in the open web, whether or not you’re a developer.
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Digital Self-Defense for Journalists: An Introduction
By Martin Shelton
Posted onDigital self-defense is becoming an important part of the journalistic toolkit. Beyond risks to everyone’s digital lives—webcam hacking, email breaches, identity theft—people who work in newsrooms have even more at stake. Newsrooms are some of the biggest targets in the world for state-sponsored digital attacks, as well as more routine threats. Here’s how to build stronger roadblocks, making it harder for others to access our data without consent.
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Source Project Roundup, July 13
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onHere’s a sampling of recent projects that we especially appreciated—inspiring work that we loved exploring and sharing: Seattle’s dialogue on race, the high cost of police misconduct, the price of reigning in Southeast Asia, and more.
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Five Things I Learned Making a Chart Out of Body Parts
By Lena Groeger
Posted onLast year, an interactive graphic about insurance turned out to be one of ProPublica’s most popular pieces of the year. I’m going to tell you about some things we learned in the process of designing and building it, from its bovine origin story to the challenges of visualizing an eyeball.
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Feats Thru Sheets: The Wonders of Go-To Templates
By Carla Astudillo
Posted onWhen you’re part of a tiny digital team, you find ways to make life easier for everyone in the newsroom. That’s why I created Feats Thru Sheets, an interactive, filterable, searchable database that can be reskinned for different types of stories and updated solely by reporters.
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Event Roundup, July 11
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Posted onEvents this week in Buenos Aires, New York, and Toronto, plus ONA fellowships deadline.
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How We Made “Make it Stop”
By Gabriel Florit, Elaina Natario, and Michael Workman
Posted onThe Boston Globe’s newsroom development team built “Make it Stop,” a powerful editorial statement on gun control after the Orlando shootings, in just 13 hours. Here’s how they did it — and the tools and workflows they made well in advance to enable (extremely) rapid development.
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Event Roundup, June 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onTwo opportunities this week to learn from Knight-Mozilla Fellow Sandhya Sandhya Kambhampati, plus a bunch of upcoming deadlines.
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News nerds, what do you need?
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe’d love to learn more about your experience as part of the journalism-code community through an exciting new survey
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Source Project Roundup, June 21
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onHere’s a sampling of what inspired us, what challenged our assumptions, and what became most beloved in our browser tabs: unstoppable opinions, traffic stops, Brexit clarity, Orlando heroics.