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  1. Event Roundup, May 13

    By Erika Owens

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    It’s the Collaborative Journalism Summit this week, plus a bunch of upcoming deadlines.

  2. Hacking Our Hiring: Fair & Useful In-Person Interviews

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The fifth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  3. Our Database of Troubled Cops, and How You Can Help

    By Matt Wynn

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    So far, we’ve collected more than 220,000 records detailing the troubles of police, and the collection continues to grow. The data is already being shared with reporters across the USA TODAY Network of more than 100 newsrooms coast to coast. Now we’re making the same information available to you.

  4. Things You Made, May 3

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  5. A Dinner for Journalists Means More Power at the Table

    By Shira Stein

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    An easy way to build community starts with an invite to a casual, home-cooked meal.

  6. How to Keep Going: Lessons from Reporting “Heartbroken”

    By Neil Bedi

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    We spent most of 2018 knocking our heads against one reporting challenge after the other. Here’s how we kept going, on our Pulitzer-nominated series.

  7. Event Roundup, April 29

    By Erika Owens

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    The Data Institute deadline is this week, plus other events and happenings.

  8. Introducing Workbench, an Open Source Platform

    By Pierre Conti, Adam Hooper, and Jonathan Stray

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    Five great things you can do with Workbench, whether you want to scrape a site, clean data, analyze data, or learn data journalism without code.

  9. How to Be an Ally in the Newsroom

    By Emma Carew Grovum

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    Step outside your comfort zone, step up to support your friends and colleagues, and act boldly to advocate for inclusion.

  10. Event Roundup, April 22

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadline time for SRCCON, plus lots of upcoming events

  11. Hacking Our Hiring: Let’s Talk About Screening

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The fourth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  12. Event Roundup, April 15

    By Erika Owens

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    A bunch of meetups coming up, plus our SRCCON call for participation is now open!

  13. Why National Editors Should Connect with Local Reporters

    By Dana Amihere

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    How and why national news orgs should find local reporters to cover stories in their own communities.

  14. Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?

    By Tiff Fehr

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    Part of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.

  15. Things You Made, April 5

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  16. Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  17. Event Roundup, April 1

    By Erika Owens

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    Journalists gather this week in Perugia, plus upcoming deadlines.

  18. Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.

  19. Event Roundup, March 25

    By Erika Owens

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    Lots of meetups, plus the Data Journalism Awards deadline is coming up soon!

  20. Things You Made, March 22

    By Lindsay Muscato

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

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