Articles tagged: SRCCON

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   Practical Tips for Improving Mental Health in the Newsroom

   By Joel Eastwood

   Posted on October 12, 2016

   Every year, roughly one in five American adults experiences a mental illness. Working in a newsroom poses particular challenges to mental health: the job typically involves a high-stress environment, long hours, tight deadlines, exposure to graphic images and videos, and an unstable industry with uncertain benefits and job security. This July in Portland at SRCCON, dozens of journalists, developers and newsroom workers sat down together to share their personal experiences with mental health.

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   Peer Reviewing Our Data Stories

   By Ariana Giorgi and Christine Zhang

   Posted on October 10, 2016

   As journalists who analyze data for stories, we strive to hold ourselves accountable to a high standard of accuracy. But checking our work is rarely a straightforward process. Newsroom editors and fact-checkers might not have enough data expertise. Often, we need an outside opinion. Ideally, we could ask each other for advice, or even turn to experts in other fields for help.

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   Designing News Apps for Humanity

   By Thomas Wilburn

   Posted on September 26, 2016

   Reader trust is fragile and easily betrayed, and competition is fierce. Newsrooms can’t afford to ignore the way our work affects our readers when their contexts conflict with our expectations.

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   When They Don’t Want You To Lead

   By Emily Chow and Kaeti Hinck

   Posted on September 12, 2016

   It’s challenging to find your feet as a leader, even more so when you’re in an underrepresented group. For people of color, women and other underrepresented groups, there are structural systems and power dynamics in place that make navigating the workplace—and leadership—especially precarious. During SRCCON in Portland, we gathered to talk about our experiences and ideas for how to navigate shared challenges.

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   GIFfable Audio at SRCCON

   By Jane Friedhoff

   Posted on August 30, 2016

   Our SRCCON session was sparked by our work on an audio-sharing tool called Shortcut, which is a tool that makes it easy for podcast fans to share their favorite moments on social media. What seemed like a relatively straightforward project ended up spiraling out into a set of super-interesting questions around design, technology, and reasons why people share.

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   Field Notes from SRCCON 2016

   By Katie Jansen, Ebony Martin, and Zara Stone

   Posted on August 25, 2016

   Three SRCCON participants share notes and learnings from this year’s conference in Portland.

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   Hello from SRCCON 2016

   By

   Posted on July 28, 2016

   Source is in Portland this week for SRCCON 2016. Here’s how you can follow along with us.

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   The Myth of the Sole and Useful Story

   By Robinson Meyer

   Posted on September 22, 2015

   A newspaper investigation is a messy thing, and it generates a lot of stuff—papers, reports, spreadsheets, interview transcripts—that never sees publication. Should that change now that many publications work primarily online?

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   A User-Centered Conversation at SRCCON

   By Lindsay Muscato

   Posted on July 30, 2015

   At SRCCON, we heard a lot about a user-centered approach. What does that mean for journalism?

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    You Are Such Polymaths

    By Lindsay Muscato

    Posted on July 10, 2015

    At SRCCON, OpenNews’s two-day conference in Minneapolis last month, we basked in the collective smarts of 220+ attendees and nearly 50 sessions. Afterward, we heard a lot of lovely feedback (people like snacks and unisex bathrooms and child care, and we are so very happy you were happy). So we’d like to reflect back some thoughts about you. Like: it was really clear, in a tangible way, that you have more gears, switches, and hidden functions than Furiosa’s war rig.

11. SRCCON: How Not to Skew Data with Statistics

    By Kio Stark

    Posted on August 5, 2014

    Notes from a lively SRCCON discussion on tricks for avoiding error, led by Aurelia Moser and Chris Keller.

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    SRCCON: Human-Driven Design

    By Kio Stark

    Posted on July 31, 2014

    Ryan Pitts and Sara Schnadt on how to know your users and build just what they need.

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    The Great SRCCON Brain Dump

    By Erin Kissane

    Posted on July 30, 2014

    SRCCON, the first-ever OpenNews conference, wrapped up last Friday night at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. As Quartz’s Nikhil Sonnad notes in his wrap-up post, the problem with even the most energetic and inspiring conference is that the motivation found often fades when everyone returns to the daily hustle and sprint. Like Sonnad, we’re confident that the news-code community that showed up in force at SRCCON has the stamina and sustained interest to maintain the momentum that built up in sessions and around the coffee-hacking stations, and we want to help with that as much as possible. We also want to scoop up as much of the energy and intensity and brain-sharing from SRCCON as we can and pour it out into the wider world that couldn’t fit into the physical conference itself.

14. Announcing SRCCON

    By Erin Kissane

    Posted on April 25, 2014

    Everything you need to know to get psyched about coming to SRCCON 2014.