Reflections on Source, as our editor steps away from the desk.

Kick off the new year applying to a bunch of things!

The human and socio-cultural elements of how an entire newsroom can come together to take a chance on a wild idea.

Using 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.

How 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?

We 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.

Today we’re featuring an excerpt from Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data by Lam Thuy Vo, which is being released this week.

Knight-Mozilla Fellowship alum Christine Zhang hosts a meetup in Baltimore this week, plus lots of deadlines.

A compilation of research on understanding current pay rates, to help close persistent pay gaps in the industry.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

What does a community engagement editor do? What could such a role do for your newsroom? Derrick Cain of Resolve Philly explains his philosophy

It’s SRCCON:LEAD this week and we have much to share, plus a bunch of upcoming deadlines.

Our speaker roster for SRCCON:LEAD’s talks is going to be amazing.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

As part of planning SRCCON:LEAD, we’ve heard from over 100 journalists about how they would like leadership in our industry to change. The answers were remarkably consistent: We need leadership that is more diverse, more interdisciplinary, more intentional in its development, and more open in its communication.

Nonprofit Developers Summit this week, and the engagement community gathers again next week at People Powered.

Regardless of what role you play in your organization, you’ve likely encountered creative block: Sometimes it feels like every story has already been done, or there’s no way around the problem you’re trying to solve. Here’s our attempt to figure out why it happens and what you can do about it, from our SRCCON session in 2019.

Express your gratitude to the peers who’ve helped you make it through the year known as 2019.

Stories about conflicts of interest, influence, and accountability often require journalists to search across many different datasets, which are rarely in the same place. The Investigative Reporting Workshop created The Accountability Project to make much of that data available in one search.