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Survey time: Tell us about your work

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 6, 2022
The News Nerd Survey is back and needs your input.
What Local Coders Can Tell Us About Our Industry

By Erika Owens

Posted on November 21, 2018
Our takeaways from deep-dive interviews with coders in smaller, regional, and local publications.
News nerds, what do you need?

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 23, 2016
We’d love to learn more about your experience as part of the journalism-code community through an exciting new survey
Opening Up Doc2Media

By Juan Elosua

Posted on August 7, 2015
Earlier this year at La Nación, we developed Doc2Media, an app that adds media resources to documents hosted on DocumentCloud. We created it to visualize hearings from a famous trial led by Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who died in unclear circumstances hours before testifying against the Argentinian president. After we finished the project, we wanted to extend its functionality and abstract it to a tool that can be used in other projects as well as by other newsrooms.
Demo Sites Are Weird

By Ryan Mark and Kavya Sukumar

Posted on August 4, 2015
Since the launch of Autotune, we have been approached by people interested in adopting it for their own newsrooms. While a lot of people didn’t mind diving right into the set up, a few people asked us “Is there anywhere I can try this out?”. Fueled by the amazing coffee selection at the most recent OpenNews code convening in Portland, we decided to build a demo site that allows users to try building projects and get a feel for the framework.
Fellows + Code Convening = New Open Source Tools

By Erin Kissane

Posted on July 29, 2015
Our fifth OpenNews code convening wrapped up last Friday. Uniquely for our convenings, this one included all seven of our current Knight-Mozilla Fellows, each working with a colleague from their news organization or another organization with shared challenges and complimentary skills. Over the next week, we’ll be posting project introductions from each of the seven project teams that joined us in Portland for the event. In the interim, a quick intro to the teams, the projects they brought to the convening, and what they got done.
Seven Projects from the OpenNews + Write the Docs Code Convening

By Kathryn Beaty, Scott Blumenthal, Audrey Carlsen, Stijn Debrouwere, Cathy Deng, Ben Keith, Erin Kissane, Ryan Nagle, Gabriela Rodriguez, Michael Strickland, Seth Vincent, and Thomas Wilburn

Posted on June 9, 2015
Journalist-coders tackled last-mile work and documentation at our Open News code convening in May, held in affiliation with the Write the Docs conference. Here’s what they did and what comes next.
Return of the Code Convenings: Elections and Updates

By Erin Kissane

Posted on November 24, 2014
Earlier this month, we held our third-ever OpenNews Code Convening, and our first one west of Portland, Oregon. Code Convenings are short events that bring together pairs of developers from news organizations to finish, document, and release open source projects they’ve been chipping away at.
What We Learned from the First-Ever OpenNews Code Convening

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Posted on April 14, 2014
When we talk with newsrooms about open-sourcing their work, often the response we get is that they’d love to, but deadline pressures keep the last-mile work and documentation that signifies a good open-source project on the to-do list. So at OpenNews, we came up with a simple proposition: What if we free up that time by getting developers out of the deadline grind? Let’s put them up for a few days, feed them, and help get the work done.
Introducing Opened Captions

By Dan Schultz

Posted on October 16, 2012
Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.
Source launches Oct. 16

By Erin Kissane

Posted on September 20, 2012
As ONA12 gets going in San Francisco, we’re hitting the last stretch with Source, the OpenNews community and index for news development. We even have a launch date, and it’s…really soon.