Our Q&A with Sinduja Rangarajan on reporting about a wall of bureaucracy that’s creating fear and uncertainty

Reflections on Source, as our editor steps away from the desk.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

What does a community engagement editor do? What could such a role do for your newsroom? Derrick Cain of Resolve Philly explains his philosophy

Our speaker roster for SRCCON:LEAD’s talks is going to be amazing.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Express your gratitude to the peers who’ve helped you make it through the year known as 2019.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

A 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.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.

Our latest biweekly roundup of projects and updates.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup of projects from around the journalism and code community.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our Q&A; with SRCCON:POWER emcee Kim Bui.

Our Q&A; with SRCCON:POWER speaker Rachel Schallom on why industry coverage matters.

SRCCON:POWER speaker Ben Mullin on why media organizations must have more transparency.

SRCCON:POWER speaker Robert Hernandez on how horizontal loyalty can change how you perceive what’s possible.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Britt Paris previews her talk on audiovisual fakes and tech’s hidden power structures.

SRCCON:POWER speaker Sara Wachter-Boettcher previews her upcoming talk.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

A Q&A with Marshall Hopkins from the Ithaca Times about journalists helping voters overcome hurdles to civic participation.

Our regular biweekly roundup

Alvin Chang of Vox talks to Source about analyzing transcripts of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings and finding what could be measured.

Our regular biweekly roundup

Our regular biweekly roundup of news nerd projects and things living in our tabs.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup

Our new open-source Slackchat tool is ready for everyone.

We spoke to two members of ProPublica’s leadership, about working, leading, and looking forward.

Our regular biweekly roundup returns after a short break.

Notes and links to what happened at SRCCON 2018.

SRCCON 2018 is about to begin.

Unionizing 101, a SRCCON session preview.

Aligning your team early can make all the difference.

A SRCCON 2018 session about interacting with your listeners and readers through SMS.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup

Our regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.

Our regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.

What spring looks like for Source.

Our biweekly roundup of interactive and data journalism you may have missed.

Our biweekly roundup of interactive and data journalism you may have missed.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup of noteworthy projects—the first of 2018.

Our regular biweekly roundup of noteworthy projects.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. First up is ProPublica’s Sisi Wei, who will speak about blind hiring processes

Our regular biweekly roundup.

To piece together the bigger picture of water usage and how much people pay, the Tribune team used a variety of data sources, including their own survey. They found wide disparities in what residents were paying for water, with the poorest communities paying the most.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

Our regular biweekly roundup of projects and updates.

Over the past two years or so, we’ve kept tabs on our community’s work around guns in America. We’ve seen a wealth of data visualizations and a huge breadth of interactive projects that bring clarity to stories of gun violence and mass shootings—projects often assembled quickly amidst the chaos of breaking news.

Our regular biweekly roundup from the journalism code community.

Our biweekly roundup of projects in the journalism/code universe.

Our regular biweekly roundup of journalism + code projects.

Our latest roundup from the world of journalism and code.

What we did on our summer vacation SRCCON 2017.

Our latest roundup of journalism and code projects.

Getting ready for SRCCON 2017, with sessions from our vault and a look at what’s coming up.

Gina Boysun and Justin Myers led a session at SRCCON 2016 about how to handle competing priorities and build bridges across departments.

Joe Germuska’s well-loved session on science fiction gathered presenters for short talks on real and imagined futures, especially focused on prescient representations of media, culture, and interconnectivity.

Recap of the 2016 SRCCON session by Allison McCartney and Dolly Li on creating compelling visuals for abstract stories

Our regular roundup of pieces from the journalism/code world.

Our regular roundup of pieces from the journalism/code world.

A human-friendly doc sprint produced The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom.

Our regular roundup of projects and pieces from the Source community.

Our regular roundup of projects and pieces from the Source community.

Interactive features, project breakdowns, and best practices

Next month on Source, we’re running a week of pieces focused on security for journalists and news organizations—our first-ever Security Week.

A roundup of journalism and code projects from the last few weeks.

A roundup of journalism and code projects from the last few weeks.

Projects from Buzzfeed, the Dallas Morning News, NJ.com, the Oregonian, the Tampa Bay Times, and more.

Projects from the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Pudding, the Sun Sentinel, and more.

Projects from the Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica, Reveal, Univision, and more.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the first release of our community-built guidebook, The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom.

We’ve returned from roundup hiatus with a new website, a new OpenNews, a bunch of great columnists and new writers, and the another batch of excellent new things you made.

Call for pitches, looking ahead to 2017.

This week, eleven contributors gathered with us in Washington, D.C. to work on a new resource—a playbook for open-sourcing newsroom code. Together we hoped to tackle a question that’s come up again and again: how to help more newsrooms produce open-source projects, so that everyone can spend more time on great journalism instead of re-creating common tools, tech, and datasets from scratch.

OpenNews (and thus Source) exists to do one thing: to help a community of newsroom technologists, data scientists, and interactive designers thrive. We believe in the value of the work, now as ever. We will continue to look for new ways to support what you do, and to support you, as human beings. For now, we offer some links to your work on the way the vote went down, a map of loss, images of new Europeans, strong words, and more.

Here’s a look at what we’ve been reading and scrolling through lately: border issues, complaints against cops, campaign data, invisible labor, and more.

Here’s what we’ve been reading and scrolling through lately: document-rich investigations, special education in Texas, the boundaries of the South, the pros and cons of urban cycling, and more.

Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been browsing lately: Texas unholstered, an Instagram narrative, the richest data in New Jersey, and more.

Here’s a handful of what we’ve been inspired by lately: new angles on the Olympics, an almanac of American national parks, striking maps of change in Delhi, and more.

We’re back from SRCCON with a bunch of links. Plus, here’s a sampling of recent projects that we especially appreciated—athletics, annotations, and aerial views.

Here’s a sampling of recent projects that we especially appreciated—inspiring work that we loved exploring and sharing: Seattle’s dialogue on race, the high cost of police misconduct, the price of reigning in Southeast Asia, and more.

Here’s a sampling of what inspired us, what challenged our assumptions, and what became most beloved in our browser tabs: unstoppable opinions, traffic stops, Brexit clarity, Orlando heroics.

Here’s a few things we especially appreciated recently: green spaces, small multiples, and forking paths of perception.

A few of our favorite bits of thinking and linking around bots.

Here’s a handful of inspiring projects that we especially loved and appreciated, these past few weeks.

Here’s a handful of our favorite pieces from the past few weeks, created within the newsroom-code universe.

Vox’s recent interactive on teen health asks the user for their birth year and then, based on that, changes the text of the story. We thought it was a fascinatingly personal way to contextualize CDC health data, leveraging readers’ innate curiosity about how they stack up. We talked to developer Soo Oh about the process.

Here’s a roundup of our favorite projects and pieces from the past couple of weeks, all worthy of another look.

Two weeks of highlights and bookmarks: projects and code that showed us new angles, got newsroom coders talking, and pointed toward better ways of working.

Here’s a few things that made us pause, over the past few weeks: beautiful, haunting, or otherwise fascinating pieces from the journalism code universe.

Latoya Peterson creates all kinds of groundbreaking digital work with Fusion. We spoke with Peterson about her Mental Map project, an interactive series that traces and celebrates creative roots.

Here’s a quick look at some cool projects, beautiful interactives, and other wonderful things that we lingered over this month, ICYMI.

Our browser tabs overfloweth with beautiful, remarkable things from the news dev world and beyond. Here’s a few we especially appreciated, from the past few weeks.

Here’s another ICYMI roundup: an inspiring handful of recent cool stuff that deserves another look.

A roundup of what’s currently on our minds and in our browser tabs, assembled here for our fellow news nerds.

Pitch now for Work Week (September 14-18), and tell us your best ideas related to workflow, project management, team communication, burnout, and more. Pitches due Friday, September 5.

A few of our favorite pieces from the Los Angeles Times, NPR, the Post and Courier and more.

Recent pieces that we loved from ProPublica and Matter, BuzzFeed, the Daily Herald and WBEZ, New York Magazine, and more.

At SRCCON, we heard a lot about a user-centered approach. What does that mean for journalism?

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.

This 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.