Articles
Projects walkthroughs, tool teardowns, interviews, and more.
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Rebuilding Ad Tech: Open Source, Publisher First
By Amanda Hicks and Aram Zucker-Scharff
Posted onA recap of our SRCCON session on how ad tech could be so much better.
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Event Roundup, August 13
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Media Party is next week, and they’re honoring innovative projects.
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How We Made “Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison”
By Yolanda Martinez
Posted onA data project that shows how the U.S. government has prioritized immigration deterrence and criminalization.
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Things You Made, Aug 9
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How We Made the New Big Mac Index Interactive
By Martín González, Evan Hensleigh, Matt McLean, Marie Segger, and Alex Selby-Boothroyd
Posted onA walkthrough of making an iconic index new again.
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Calling All Platypuses
By Hannah Birch
Posted onWho do you know who is editorially minded, works well with CMSes, likes HTML/CSS, enthusiastically corrects people’s grammar, and is great at managing details, big projects or both?”
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Things You Made, July 26
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Q&A with Politico: How We Built Our Election Slackchat
By Jon McClure, Lily Mihalik, Lindsay Muscato, and Ryan Pitts
Posted onOur new open-source Slackchat tool is ready for everyone.
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Event Roundup, July 23
By Erika Owens
Posted onIntro to R MOOC starts today, plus upcoming conferences.
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How We Made the “Bundyville” Podcast & Series
By Leah Sottile
Posted onThe long road to a series and a podcast, as a solo journalist.
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Event Roundup, July 16
By Erika Owens
Posted onNAHJ Convention is this week, plus the ONA Community Award deadline.
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Ten Years of ProPublica: a Q&A on Leading the Way
By Ryann Grochowski Jones, Lindsay Muscato, and Sisi Wei
Posted onWe spoke to two members of ProPublica’s leadership, about working, leading, and looking forward.
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Things You Made, July 12
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup returns after a short break.
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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day
By David Eads
Posted onThe process for loading Illinois campaign finance data used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.
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Event Roundup, July 9
By Erika Owens
Posted onYou’ve got today to apply to the MJ Bear fellowship, plus meetups this week.
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SRCCON 2018 Recap
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onNotes and links to what happened at SRCCON 2018.
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Hello from SRCCON 2018
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onSRCCON 2018 is about to begin.
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Six Tips for Unionizing Your Workplace
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onUnionizing 101, a SRCCON session preview.
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Event Roundup, June 25
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s SRCCON this week! Plus other events and deadlines.
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Why a Kickoff Kit Makes Starting New Projects Easier
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAligning your team early can make all the difference.
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