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Event Roundup, October 14
By Erika Owens
Posted onNext week, we’re heading back to London for the Mozilla Festival, plus so many upcoming events.
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Things You Made, Oct 11
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Invest in Trust and Make Projects Reproducible by Sharing Your Data Analysis
By Janelle O’Dea
Posted onSharing a data analysis is one tactic to open up your process and improve transparency. Showing your process to your audience, so long as you won’t burn any sources, is a great way to earn readers’ trust. It’s also a pathway to starting a conversation.
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How to Start Taking Digital Security More Seriously
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onA starter pack of ideas for increasing the security of your digital footprint.
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Every Working Journalist in the U.S. Needs to Understand the 2020 Census. We’ll Help You Host a Workshop On It.
By Joe Amditis
Posted onThe Center for Cooperative Media has put together a guide to help you organize a 2020 Census workshop for local journalists.
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We Started Our Own News Nerd Training, and You Can Too
By Rachel Alexander and Kaitlin Gillespie
Posted onSmall local news organizations are increasingly scaling back their budgets for professional development—that is, if they pay for journalists to travel to conferences at all. To work on filling the gap, Northwest News Nerds runs data journalism conferences open to women and non-binary journalists in the Northwest. We wanted something aimed squarely at beat reporters in small and medium-sized newsrooms to show that data wasn’t just for the big kids with big budgets. We also saw a need for more spaces for women, especially women of color, to speak candidly to each other about the challenges they face in newsrooms.
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Things You Made, Sept 13
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How We Made a Human-Centered Homicide Report
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onA Q&A; with the team behind Houston’s first homicide report, a cross-team collaboration that altered how different areas of the newsroom worked together.
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Event Roundup, September 9
By Erika Owens
Posted onONA is this week (and we’ll be there), plus IRE is looking for your NICAR ideas now.
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Our Industry Needs to Invest in Childcare, Especially for Conferences
By Emily Goligoski and Marisa Mazria Katz
Posted onOn the difficulty of journalism professionals arranging night and weekend care for their children and how employers, allies, conference conveners and other parents can help.
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Fix Your Feedback Loop
By Bridget Thoreson
Posted onThe solution to the horse-race coverage trap that is all too easy for newsrooms to fall into is what Jay Rosen of NYU describes as the “citizens agenda” approach. This involves turning to the citizens themselves before starting down the campaign trail and making a commitment to cover the issues that matter the most to them.
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Event Roundup, August 26
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Media Party’s back, plus a bunch of opportunities to help you and your newsroom.
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Things You Made, Aug 23
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Hacking Our Hiring at the Star Tribune
By Chase Davis
Posted onHow we ended up with more applicants than we expected, a diverse list of finalists, and a shocking amount of unsolicited positive feedback.
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Event Roundup, August 19
By Erika Owens
Posted onProject support program application from Freedom of the Press, plus a batch of events this week.
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How SRCCON Changed the Way I Teach Journalism
By Lisa Waananen Jones
Posted onAttending SRCCON transformed my own perspective on teaching by demonstrating how popular education strategies benefit professional journalists—and you can also use these strategies in newsrooms and journalism.
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Event Roundup, August 12
By Erika Owens
Posted onLots of conferences to plan for over the next month, plus upcoming deadlines like for NICAR 2020.
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How 10 Newsrooms Built a Chicago Voter Guide, Together
By Patrick Judge and Matt Kiefer
Posted onAt the end of 2018, as Chicago faced a historic election with a wide-open mayoral race and all 50 city council seats on the ballot, a group of independent newsrooms decided to try something unprecedented with their election coverage: collaborate.
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Event Roundup, July 29
By Erika Owens
Posted onLots of deadlines this week: today for CAR Boot Camp scholarships and Thursday to pitch to the Mozilla Festival.
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Things You Made, July 26
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.