How to navigate tricky social interaction and personality traits, with advice from SRCCON 2017.

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, two of the most successful guys operating during the dawn of American politics, faced a problem very similar to the ones we have in newsrooms today. They wanted to get things done at a breakneck pace, but the politics of dealing with other people slowed them down. Journalists have a similar issue. When you work in news, it can feel like working with other people is as much—or more—work as the journalism itself.

A Q&A about how the new ProPublica site came to be.

Our regular biweekly roundup of journalism + code projects.

We know that each of us brings our identities, our experiences, our communities with us into this work. We work to make SRCCON a space where folks can feel able to explore how our selves shape our journalism, and find support from one another. And this year, with a relentless news cycle and threats to our communities and journalism itself, we needed space to acknowledge both the pain and the power we carry with us.

Next week, several journalism organizations band together for the Excellence in Journalism Conference, plus upcoming deadlines.

With the coming eclipse, we wanted to build a very detailed map of the parts of America that would experience totality. We also wanted to show what the shadow of the eclipse would look like as it traversed the country.

The main takeaway was to be intentional about your hiring process.

The pressures on news staff to be resourceful and to deliver have never been greater. The stresses involved are compounded by our day-to-day caregiving responsibilities for our children, parents, and friends, among others.

Journalists spend a lot of time with data, sometimes that data is even about themselves. Last year, over 500 “news nerds”—the developers, designers, editors, data analysts, and product folks who work with tech and journalism every day—told us about their teams, newsrooms, and what would help them in this work. The results helped shape our work at Source and OpenNews, and folks found it so useful that we’ve brought it back as an annual News Nerd Survey.

A roundup of the custom-designed, interactive news items that helped readers prepare for and understand a solar eclipse.

A look back at a three-day working group on how captions and transcripts can improve the audio and video production process.

Malware lets an unauthorized third party access or take control of your device. In practice, it’s become a catch-all term for a huge variety of malicious software. That could include software that hijacks computing resources, lets an attacker monitor your screen, keystrokes,microphone, or effectively turns your device into an expensive brick.

Our latest roundup from the world of journalism and code.

The idea for our lifetime eclipse-finder project is based around a widely used NASA database of eclipse predictions. The data is dense (5,000 years worth) and I was surprised that nobody in the media dataviz community has really taken advantage of the dataset, in recent years at least.

DjangoCon US this week, plus a bunch of local meetups next week.

What we did on our summer vacation SRCCON 2017.

A session on wrangling content, and learning from each other about how to solve common problems.

Our latest roundup of journalism and code projects.

Yay, it’s SRCCON time, plus some upcoming deadlines and other events this week.