Secret Canada is an investigation and a public-service teaching tool. Advice about record requests can inspire your readers, too.

How to tailor guidance for your audience, and come up with a plan for keeping it up-to-date.

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.

How do you balance clear communication, changing needs, decisions that predate you—all while you’re staring down a million support tickets?

How we wired together Signal, Twilio, and a spare cell phone to create a newsroom number for sources who need privacy.

Here’s how to use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code.

An event report from Story Discovery At Scale, bringing people together to work on tools and sustainability for local journalism.

An update based on responses from over 600 journalists.

At a recent Open Data Day hackathon in Mongolia, a community grew around their exploration of place, pollution, and transit.

From goal-setting and short reflections to perfecting your personal narrative, here’s a five-step process that keeps you ready for opportunities.

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

Our eyes are open to the constant uphill battles our news organizations are facing. Here are some tips to help you navigate as a leader.

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

In this third iteration of the News Nerd Survey, we hear from 603 respondents about their work in the field.

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

When news organizations say they support diversity efforts but their actions say otherwise, teams and communities lose faith.

Get free peer mentoring support for reporting on science stories. Apply by February 8.

From faster work that others can replicate to multi-story databases, here’s what I learned during my fellowship with a data team.