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Event Roundup, March 2
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s NICAR this week!
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Buddying up with the news-nerd community
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onWhere do you turn with a question that’s stopping your data project in its tracks? If you don’t have a news-nerd colleague nearby, there’s a whole community out there happy to help. Here are three ways you can tap into networks of support, both right now and next week.
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Investigating Immigration Issues as a Journalist and Immigrant
By Lindsay Muscato and Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onOur Q&A with Sinduja Rangarajan on reporting about a wall of bureaucracy that’s creating fear and uncertainty
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What Product Teams Should Know About Working With Newsrooms
By Brittany Hite and Christopher Chung
Posted onEditorial and product teams are more effective and impactful when they work together, not separately. Here’s a guide to help product teams better understand their news colleagues.
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Event Roundup, January 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onA bunch of upcoming deadlines, including the Sigma Awards.
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Why and How Journalists Should Build Better Support Networks
By Jennifer Mizgata
Posted onSupport looks different for different people, and it can look really different at different moments of your life. Personal support is relationship-based. Your relationships are going to change, and the support you have from them changes at certain times too, depending on people’s capacity. Here’s a question you can start with to think about what support might look like for you: What are your asks and offers to your support network?
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Engagement Isn’t a Project, It’s a Way of Making News
By Angilee Shah
Posted onEngagement is not something you simply add to an organizational chart or a budget. If you want to be engaged with the people you are trying to serve, you have to change what you prioritize in your newsroom.
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Last Thoughts for a New Year
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onReflections on Source, as our editor steps away from the desk.
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Event Roundup, January 6
By Erika Owens
Posted onKick off the new year applying to a bunch of things!
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Things You Made: Last Roundup of 2019, Plus Community Thanks
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Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Celebrating the Collaborative Spirit Behind an Award-Winning Story
By Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onThe human and socio-cultural elements of how an entire newsroom can come together to take a chance on a wild idea.
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How We Reported on Gunshot Victims’ Access to Trauma Care
By Sean Campbell, Laura Laderman, and Maya Miller
Posted onUsing data on the more than 12,000 shootings recorded by the NYPD in a 9-year-period, we mapped shootings relative to trauma centers and looked at the relationship between fatality and distance to a trauma center. We also looked at how the number of ICU beds in trauma centers nearby victims affected fatality.
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Know Your Own Blind Spots, When Covering Communities
By Dana Amihere
Posted onHow do we measure how well our coverage reflects the communities we are entrusted with reporting on? How do we check our work for social and cultural tone deafness, for blind spots and holes, especially when it comes to marginalized or vulnerable communities?
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How We Flipped Media Literacy and Built Community Literacy Instead
By Cirien Saadeh
Posted onWe are building a community with a different relationship to journalism. It’s an approach rooted in community literacy. For our first issue, we’re telling a different story of the MN State Legislature, by training community members to be journalists.
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Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data
By Lam Thuy Vo
Posted onToday we’re featuring an excerpt from Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data by Lam Thuy Vo, which is being released this week.
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Event Roundup, December 2
By Erika Owens
Posted onKnight-Mozilla Fellowship alum Christine Zhang hosts a meetup in Baltimore this week, plus lots of deadlines.
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Here’s What I’ve Learned About Transparency & Media Salaries
By Amanda Hickman
Posted onA compilation of research on understanding current pay rates, to help close persistent pay gaps in the industry.
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Things You Made: Learning How to Texas, Deciding Where to Stadium
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How a Community Engagement Editor Can Transform Your Newsroom’s Work
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWhat does a community engagement editor do? What could such a role do for your newsroom? Derrick Cain of Resolve Philly explains his philosophy
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Event Roundup, November 18
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s SRCCON:LEAD this week and we have much to share, plus a bunch of upcoming deadlines.