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Event Roundup, Aug 3
By Erika Owens
Posted onDemos at Hacks/Hackers meetups this week in Seattle and next week in New York.
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News Nerd Roundup, July 31, 2015
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onRecent pieces that we loved from ProPublica and Matter, BuzzFeed, the Daily Herald and WBEZ, New York Magazine, and more.
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Introducing broca
By Francis Tseng
Posted onMade at our recent code convening, broca creates a system for easier experimentation and implementation of natural language processing.
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Introducing Lunchbox
By Tyler Fisher and Livia Labate
Posted onAt the OpenNews July 2015 Code Convening, the NPR Visuals Team built and released a desktop app for creating shareable images across social media platforms.
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A User-Centered Conversation at SRCCON
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAt SRCCON, we heard a lot about a user-centered approach. What does that mean for journalism?
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Fellows + Code Convening = New Open Source Tools
By Erin Kissane
Posted onOur fifth OpenNews code convening wrapped up last Friday. Uniquely for our convenings, this one included all seven of our current Knight-Mozilla Fellows, each working with a colleague from their news organization or another organization with shared challenges and complimentary skills. Over the next week, we’ll be posting project introductions from each of the seven project teams that joined us in Portland for the event. In the interim, a quick intro to the teams, the projects they brought to the convening, and what they got done.
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Event Roundup, July 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onMeetups this week in Austin, Tokyo, NYC, DC, Bogota, Miami, and Montevideo, plus it’s your last chance to pitch to the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party
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How We Made Losing Ground
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onHow we tracked down, processed, filtered, revisualized, mashed up, and otherwise handled a boatload of disparate imagery to map changes in the Louisiana coastline backward and forward in time.
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Event Roundup, July 20
By Erika Owens
Posted onChat with OpenNews this week about Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, or apply for the HBCU fellowship to ONA.
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Event Roundup, July 13
By Erika Owens
Posted onMedia Factory bootcamps continue this week, with Knight-Mozilla Fellowship alum Sonya Song in Lima.
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You Are Such Polymaths
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAt SRCCON, OpenNews’s two-day conference in Minneapolis last month, we basked in the collective smarts of 220+ attendees and nearly 50 sessions. Afterward, we heard a lot of lovely feedback (people like snacks and unisex bathrooms and child care, and we are so very happy you were happy). So we’d like to reflect back some thoughts about you. Like: it was really clear, in a tangible way, that you have more gears, switches, and hidden functions than Furiosa’s war rig.
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Introducing Autotune
By Ryan Mark, Lauren Rabaino, and Kavya Sukumar
Posted onToday we’re announcing a new project we’ve been working on at Vox Media: Autotune, a centralized management system for charts, graphics, quizzes, and other tools. We built the application to address the problem of reusability in our work. This project is open source and available to everyone.
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Event Roundup, July 6
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Posted onThe third Hacking Journalism event is in DC this weekend, plus a data visualization workshop in Pittsburgh, and Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world.
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Reported.ly’s Editorial—and Web—Evolution
By P. Kim Bui
Posted onKim Bui breaks down the iterative process reported.ly’s web presence has undergone alongside the team’s editorial evolution.
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Event Roundup, June 22
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s time for SRCCON, plus the first Hacks/Hackers Connect, Open Source Bridge, and local meetups.
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How We Made “Faces of Death Row”
By Jolie McCullough and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onThis week, the Texas Tribune launched Faces of Death Row, a simply designed news app that prominently features photographs of each of the 261 people currently awaiting execution in Texas (accompanying article). The app allows for filtering by age, race, sex, and number of years spent on death row. Its simplicity—an artifact of the unavailability of the data the Tribune originally sought—is also its strength.
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Event Roundup, June 15
By Erika Owens
Posted onEngage Local and Allied Media conferences this week, plus the application for the 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellowship is now open.
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Remote Control: Mandy Brown of Vox Product
By Mandy Brown and Kaeti Hinck
Posted onIn the first installment of our new series on remote work in journalism-tech, Kaeti Hinck speaks with Mandy Brown about her setup, her team’s approach, and her advice to to anyone who wants to go remote.
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How We Made “Money as a Weapons System”
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Posted onHow ProPublica’s team communicated the complexities—and absurdities—of $2B in mostly unrestricted spending by military personnel in Afghanistan.
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Seven Projects from the OpenNews + Write the Docs Code Convening
By Kathryn Beaty, Scott Blumenthal, Audrey Carlsen, Stijn Debrouwere, Cathy Deng, Ben Keith, Erin Kissane, Ryan Nagle, Gabriela Rodriguez, Michael Strickland, Seth Vincent, and Thomas Wilburn
Posted onJournalist-coders tackled last-mile work and documentation at our Open News code convening in May, held in affiliation with the Write the Docs conference. Here’s what they did and what comes next.