This weekend is the National Day of Civic Hacking in cities around the U.S. including an event focused on supporting Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts in Rockaway Beach and one focused on immigration in Chicago.

Introducing a very simple content management system from the Tribapps team (and friends).

In early May, Reuters began rolling out previews of its new design for Reuters.com. We checked in with Paul Smalera, Editorial Tools Product Manager and Technology Editor at Reuters.com, who fought his way out from under a stack of redesign-related work to answer our questions.

In our second dispatch from OpenVis Conf, Twitter's Miguel Rios digs into four major options for displaying visualizations on the web.

Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg

The final Editors’ Lab before the Global Editors Network Conference in June and data hacking in Spain this weekend.

Our first write-up from OpenVis Conf in Cambridge, MA features the opening keynote from Amanda Cox of the New York Times Graphics desk.

Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.

We asked for your thoughts on Strongbox, the New Yorker’s new implementation of DeadDrop. Our first wave of responses includes the New York Times’ Jacob Harris, the Overview Project’s Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas, OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica.

Strongbox uses Tor, and the coding savvy of Aaron Swartz, to help sources communicate more securely with the New Yorker. Its release today inspired a big reaction from the journalism code community.

OpenNews Fellow Noah Veltman breaks down the design and code decisions behind his History of SF Place Names map.

This weekend, Code with me comes to Austin and lo-fi hacking in Chile.

Second in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective

We spoke with three members of team behind the new New York Times mobile site to learn what’s going on under the hood and how they made the design decisions underlying the new view.

Learning about Tor in South Africa, hacking in India, and last chance to pitch your ideas for the Online News Association conference.

Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.

Harvesting data in Belgium and talking transparency in DC this weekend. Plus, session suggestions for the Online News Association conference due Tuesday.

Last weekend, ten teams participated in a competition to develop newsgames at Editors’ Lab New York, a hackathon organized by the Global Editors Network and The New York Times. Combining the fantastical and playful aspects of gaming with hard news is a hard problem and there are few examples of well-conceived and executed newsgames. Thanks to the hack day, there are now a few more.

Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.

The last month has brought us a spate of fresh news apps, updated and brand-new tools for journalist-developers, thoughtful analytical write-ups, and coverage of events.