Articles tagged: event writeup

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   Stuck in a Rut? Tackle Newsroom Frustrations With Board Games

   By Sara Konrad Baranowski and Andrea Suozzo

   Posted on October 11, 2017

   For our SRCCON session, we wanted to capture some of these workplace frustrations, but approach solutions in a different way. What if, instead of feeling discouraged and overwhelmed, we developed processes to boil those challenges down to their basic elements—people involved, tasks, obstacles and goals? What if we figured out how to tackle each challenge in a measured way, one step at a time?

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   Practical Tips for Improving Mental Health in the Newsroom

   By Joel Eastwood

   Posted on October 12, 2016

   Every year, roughly one in five American adults experiences a mental illness. Working in a newsroom poses particular challenges to mental health: the job typically involves a high-stress environment, long hours, tight deadlines, exposure to graphic images and videos, and an unstable industry with uncertain benefits and job security. This July in Portland at SRCCON, dozens of journalists, developers and newsroom workers sat down together to share their personal experiences with mental health.

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   Peer Reviewing Our Data Stories

   By Ariana Giorgi and Christine Zhang

   Posted on October 10, 2016

   As journalists who analyze data for stories, we strive to hold ourselves accountable to a high standard of accuracy. But checking our work is rarely a straightforward process. Newsroom editors and fact-checkers might not have enough data expertise. Often, we need an outside opinion. Ideally, we could ask each other for advice, or even turn to experts in other fields for help.

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   Designing News Apps for Humanity

   By Thomas Wilburn

   Posted on September 26, 2016

   Reader trust is fragile and easily betrayed, and competition is fierce. Newsrooms can’t afford to ignore the way our work affects our readers when their contexts conflict with our expectations.

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   When They Don’t Want You To Lead

   By Emily Chow and Kaeti Hinck

   Posted on September 12, 2016

   It’s challenging to find your feet as a leader, even more so when you’re in an underrepresented group. For people of color, women and other underrepresented groups, there are structural systems and power dynamics in place that make navigating the workplace—and leadership—especially precarious. During SRCCON in Portland, we gathered to talk about our experiences and ideas for how to navigate shared challenges.

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   You Are Such Polymaths

   By Lindsay Muscato

   Posted on July 10, 2015

   At 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.

7. SRCCON: How Not to Skew Data with Statistics

   By Kio Stark

   Posted on August 5, 2014

   Notes from a lively SRCCON discussion on tricks for avoiding error, led by Aurelia Moser and Chris Keller.

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   SRCCON: Human-Driven Design

   By Kio Stark

   Posted on July 31, 2014

   Ryan Pitts and Sara Schnadt on how to know your users and build just what they need.