Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm discusses SecureDrop’s evolution and future prospects.

2013 OpenNews fellow Brian Abelson has been conducting research on pageviews as a metric, and on the relationship between pageviews and promotion at the New York Times during his fellowship there. This article is cross-posted from his blog.

Jacob Harris on the hows and whys of designing interactives to survive the future.

Alyson Hurt digs into the challenges of producing legible, useful network diagrams using evolving web technologies and methods.

Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller introduces the three new open source libraries behind AJA’s displaced Syrians interactive app.

Lobbying Missouri is a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and members of NPR’s news apps teams. We spoke with three team members about the project, their design process, and the code under the hood.

A light round of elections were held this week in the US, giving news developers an opportunity to outdo their usual coverage. We’ve rounded up a few highlights.

Jacob Harris on the challenges of reporting and calling elections and the making of the NYT’s chart of minute-by-minute Virginia governor’s race reporting action.

Yesterday, NPR announced that news apps team leader Brian Boyer was assuming a new role as head of the combined news apps/multimedia superteam. Boyer offers the unusual experience of having built out two news apps teams within five years, first at the Chicago Tribune and then at NPR. We spoke with him about his new gig, his path from computer science to journalism, his focus on sound process, and the internal obstacles new teams can face.

This week, Boston hosts a data festival and Complicity in Berlin brings hackers and journalists together to discuss collaboration.

Alan Palazzolo on how the MinnPost team rocks it without a big budget

Mozilla Festival participants descend on Hacks/Hackers London and Berlin this week, while this weekend the Americas Datafest takes on the topic of migration.

This week is the Mozilla Festival where we’re organizing two tracks: journalism and open data, plus, you’ll get to find out who the 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows are.

Joe Germuska on the iterative, human-centered process that’s made the new Census Reporter project especially awesome.

Today is Source’s one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we’re kicking off a new series of interviews with news apps and interactive features editors. John Keefe tells us about learning as you go, cicadas, and how the WNYC Data News team came to be.

The web journalism world descends on Atlanta this week, where OpenNews will host a party at the local makerspace, Freeside.

The Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.

Investigative journalists gather in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Hacks/Hackers meetups happen in North America and Europe.

Chase Davis lays down some data science upon us to change how you think about the questions you’re asking of your data

As the government shutdown grinds into its third day, many news developers, civic data hackers, and open gov activists are starting to feel the hurt due to the suspension of most government data feeds, APIs, and websites. How they’re adapting and collaborating to fill the gaps of the shutdown.