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A Guide to Overcoming Debilitating Personality Traits
By Emma Carew Grovum and Yoohyun Jung
Posted onHow to navigate tricky social interaction and personality traits, with advice from SRCCON 2017.
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Social Engineering in Newsrooms with Hamilton and Burr
By Hannah Birch
Posted onAlexander 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.
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Acknowledging Our Full Selves
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe 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.
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Journalism Needs Better Skills Testing
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onThe main takeaway was to be intentional about your hiring process.
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Farewell, SRCCON 2017
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWhat we did on our summer vacation SRCCON 2017.
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Practical Tips for Improving Mental Health in the Newsroom
By Joel Eastwood
Posted onEvery 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 onAs 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 onReader 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 onIt’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 onOur 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 onThree SRCCON participants share notes and learnings from this year’s conference in Portland.
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Hello from SRCCON 2016
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Posted onSource 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 onA 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 onAt 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 onAt 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.
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SRCCON: How Not to Skew Data with Statistics
By Kio Stark
Posted onNotes 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 onRyan 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 onSRCCON, 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.
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Announcing SRCCON
By Erin Kissane
Posted onEverything you need to know to get psyched about coming to SRCCON 2014.
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