We need more accurate and nuanced stories, and the Trans Journalists Association is building a community and resources to help.

How Documented fought for data about businesses that have stolen from their workers, and what you need to know to do this kind of project in your state.

A side-by-side comparison of five OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents, from DocumentCloud.

From housing prices to weather to employment, templates can generate hundreds of stories at once about numbers that people care about.

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.

Where to find the data, how to explore it, and questions to ask to report the story for your community.

Four steps you can take to catch errors earlier and bulletproof your work, even if you don’t have a colleague to help out.

“Small data”—the kind you might have to get out and collect yourself—can uncover the deeply personal history of a place.

Our reporting found that people who grow up in St. Louis tend to stay in St. Louis: About 3 out of 4 young adults who were here at age 16 were also here at age 26. Here’s how you can use federal data to see where people are moving to and from in your area.

If you’re new to accessible design, it may feel daunting to think of the work that lies ahead of you, but everyone in this field had to start somewhere. Once I realised accessibility was a baseline and not a ceiling, making my work more inclusive became an integral part of my workflow rather than an extra task between me and the publish button.

You don’t have to tell EVERYONE how much money you currently or have made in order to participate in salary transparency.

The push towards DEI initiatives in US media is a great thing, and it can help raise analog concerns in places where there hasn’t been so much reckoning. However, assuming that the same initiatives implemented to deal with discrimination in the US. are applicable elsewhere is inaccurate and short-sighted.

Newsrooms are starting to understand they need to make accessibility more than an afterthought. Editors are positioned to propel much needed change — even one story at a time.

The Stanford School Enrollment Project is a collaborative project that collects and normalizes school enrollment data from dozens of states, creating a dataset that didn’t exist before. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.

We need to fundamentally rethink the ways we report election results. Many of our maps and practices—from early calls to “trends” in vote share on election night—are confusing if not outright deceptive. The question isn’t “how do we optimize for speed, accuracy, and volume?”, it’s “how do we make sure our practices improve democracy instead of just observing it.”

Part of an occasional series offering feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who have recently left the field and still love it.

Supporting young journalists of color at the beginning of their careers is crucial to retaining them throughout the industry. What you can do to help them survive — and thrive.

Part of an occasional series offering feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who have recently left the field and still love it.

Part of an occasional series offering feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who have recently left the field and still love it.