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How to Make Evergreen Content Work for Your Newsroom
By Haley Correll
Posted onMake your existing content live on and on, with a simple spreadsheet.
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Hacking Our Hiring: What You Can Do Right Now
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onSuggestions for getting started, if you want to hack your hiring based on our series.
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Rituals, Norms and Other Ways to Build a Healthy Work Culture
By Brittany Mayes
Posted onHow to lay the groundwork for a healthy team at work.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Fair & Useful In-Person Interviews
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fifth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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A Dinner for Journalists Means More Power at the Table
By Shira Stein
Posted onAn easy way to build community starts with an invite to a casual, home-cooked meal.
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How to Keep Going: Lessons from Reporting “Heartbroken”
By Neil Bedi
Posted onWe spent most of 2018 knocking our heads against one reporting challenge after the other. Here’s how we kept going, on our Pulitzer-nominated series.
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Introducing Workbench, an Open Source Platform
By Pierre Conti, Adam Hooper, and Jonathan Stray
Posted onFive great things you can do with Workbench, whether you want to scrape a site, clean data, analyze data, or learn data journalism without code.
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How to Be an Ally in the Newsroom
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onStep outside your comfort zone, step up to support your friends and colleagues, and act boldly to advocate for inclusion.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Let’s Talk About Screening
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fourth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onPart of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.
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Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.
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How We Built the News Briefing our Audience Wanted to Hear
By Jessica Morrison
Posted onA new approach to product development: how we stopped building for our audience and started building with them.
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How We Made the Force Report Database
By Carla Astudillo and Erin Petenko
Posted onHow we made a database of every time N.J. cops punched, kicked, or used other force over a five-year period, and a series of stories to go with it.
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How to Diversify Your Newsroom, Starting Now
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onEmma Carew Grovum’s action steps toward diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizational cultures.
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Mapping the Fiery Chaos of the 1968 Riots
By Armand Emamdjomeh, Danielle Rindler, and Lauren Tierney
Posted onA full walkthrough of the Washington Post’s mapping project involving D.C.’s 1968 riots.
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How We Made “Billions of Birds Migrate”
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onNational Geographic’s enormous bird migration interactive and how it came to be.
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How We Mapped 1.3m Data Points Using Mapbox
By David Blood and Ændrew Rininsland
Posted onInside our totally complex cartographic endeavor to map broadband.
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Our Low-Stress Guide to Working Without an Editor
By Casey Miller
Posted onIf you’re working without an editor, it’s important to build your own support system. Here’s a roundup of our best ideas and strategies, based on our SRCCON 2018 session.
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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day
By David Eads
Posted onThe process for loading Illinois campaign finance data used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.
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