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.

Getting ready for SRCCON 2017, with sessions from our vault and a look at what’s coming up.

Gina Boysun and Justin Myers led a session at SRCCON 2016 about how to handle competing priorities and build bridges across departments.

Joe Germuska’s well-loved session on science fiction gathered presenters for short talks on real and imagined futures, especially focused on prescient representations of media, culture, and interconnectivity.

The session on accessibility and media run by Joanna S. Kao and John Burn-Murdoch in 2016 was one of our favorites, and deals with one of those topics that hovers at the fringe of most newsroom-dev conversations.

Last year’s SRCCON participants got a lot out of Lauren Rabaino & Kelsey Scherer’s docs session, and we’ve found ourselves returning to the transcript more than once.

The Asian American Journalists Association’s annual conference comes to Philly this week.

One of the SRCCON 2016 sessions that attendees talked about most was “Keeping People at the Forefront of Data Stories,” facilitated by William Wolfe-Wylie and based on his experience working on the CBC News project, “Missing and Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls.”

Recap of the 2016 SRCCON session by Allison McCartney and Dolly Li on creating compelling visuals for abstract stories

Our fetishisation of stoicism means we tend to dismiss deteriorating mental health breakdowns as mere distractions, best treated with an hour or so of venting to colleagues and several infusions of hard liquor.

Our regular roundup of pieces from the journalism/code world.

A quiet week for events means more time to pitch to upcoming conferences and other deadlines.

A 3D dinosaur, brought to life for National Geographic.

All the reasons that journalists should look beyond PGP for sending encrypted messages.

Heading into a batch of conferences, with some fellowship deadlines to attend ONA.

All the healthcare bill coverage, compiled.

Our regular roundup of pieces from the journalism/code world.