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  1. The Totally Incomplete Guide to Finding and Publishing Data

    By Amanda Hickman

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    Whether you’re a seasoned data journalist or brand new to thinking about data as a source in your reporting, there are exceptional places to find data that you may never have considered.

  2. Event Roundup, March 18

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadline for ONA suggestions, plus a bunch of upcoming meetups.

  3. Event Roundup, March 11

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadlines for mentorship and scholarship programs, plus upcoming events.

  4. Things You Made, March 8

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  5. How We Built the News Briefing our Audience Wanted to Hear

    By Jessica Morrison

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    A new approach to product development: how we stopped building for our audience and started building with them.

  6. Event Roundup, March 4

    By Erika Owens

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    Folks are heading to Newport Beach this week for NICAR, plus a bunch of applications and conferences looking for your contributions.

  7. How We Mapped More Than 100 Years Of Wildfire History

    By Chris Hagan and Emily Zentner

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    Quantifying chaos: building Capital Public Radio’s California Wildfire History map using a CalFire geodatabase, MapBox and a whole lot of Google searching.

  8. Event Roundup, February 25

    By Erika Owens

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    NICAR is just one week away, plus livestream from Knight Media Forum, and more.

  9. Things You Made, Feb 22

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  10. Event Roundup, February 19

    By Erika Owens

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    Deadline for AAJA’s Executive Leadership program, plus some new programs to support you getting to meet in-person.

  11. Our Search for the Best OCR Tool, and What We Found

    By Ted Han and Amanda Hickman

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    We couldn’t find single side by side comparison of the most accessible OCR options, so we ran a handful of documents through seven different tools, and compared the results.

  12. Event Roundup, February 11

    By Erika Owens

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    Lots of upcoming meetups, plus help for students to attend industry events.

  13. Things You Made, Feb 8

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  14. Event Roundup, February 4

    By Erika Owens

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    Looking ahead to conferences, plus the NICAR lightning talks want your pitches.

  15. How We Made the Force Report Database

    By Carla Astudillo and Erin Petenko

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    How we made a database of every time N.J. cops punched, kicked, or used other force over a five-year period, and a series of stories to go with it.

  16. Event Roundup, January 28

    By Erika Owens

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    Final deadlines for a bunch of fellowships, plus meetups, conferences, and more.

  17. Things You Made, Jan 25

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  18. What to Do When Your Work Isn’t Your Job

    By Julia Wolfe

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    Advice from a SRCCON:POWER 2018 session on acknowledging and managing the unofficial, invisible tasks that become part of your workday.

  19. Event Roundup, January 22

    By Erika Owens

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    Fellowship application deadlines are coming up soon, and other events.

  20. New Open Source Tools for Journalism Educators

    By Allison Lichter Joseph

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    Tools and resources, including a cool deck of cards, to teach journalism or just get yourself out of a rut.

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