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Collaboration can harness the power of technology and data for better story discovery
By Marnette Federis
Posted onAn event report from Story Discovery At Scale, bringing people together to work on tools and sustainability for local journalism.
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How California newsrooms teamed up to gather pandemic data
By Vignesh Ramachandran
Posted onData journalists from eight California newsrooms all benefit from a joint data-collection effort. Here’s how the collaboration works to free up more time for local journalism.
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The conversations local newsrooms should be having about COVID-19 coverage
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onWe spent August and September in conversation with local journalists covering COVID-19, asking what they need most
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COVID-19 story recipe: A dashboard with at-risk health indicators
By Dana Amihere, Alexandra Kanik, Lisa Pickoff-White, and Emily Zentner
Posted onWe teamed up to build a dashboard that shows two kinds of data: how widespread COVID–19 is in a community, alongside health indicators that show how some people are more at risk. We’ve open-sourced the project so you can use it too.
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Tell us what you need to cover COVID-19
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onFor the next several months, OpenNews and Big Local News will work with local journalists to develop resources their newsrooms can use to better cover COVID-19. What should that support look like? We don’t know yet! But you can help us figure it out.
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Buddying up with the news-nerd community
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onWhere do you turn with a question that’s stopping your data project in its tracks? If you don’t have a news-nerd colleague nearby, there’s a whole community out there happy to help. Here are three ways you can tap into networks of support, both right now and next week.
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What Product Teams Should Know About Working With Newsrooms
By Brittany Hite and Christopher Chung
Posted onEditorial and product teams are more effective and impactful when they work together, not separately. Here’s a guide to help product teams better understand their news colleagues.
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How to Build an App for 14 Member Newsrooms
By Denise Malan
Posted onWhat INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.