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Meet Disputed Territories and SSN Redactor

By Erin Kissane

Posted on June 25, 2014
Over the weekend, we put on the third Knight-Mozilla-MIT Hack Day, leading into the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. As usual, the hack day was loosely organized around the conference’s theme: this year, “The Open Internet and Everything After.” After 24 hours of hacking in the welcoming environment of the MIT Media Lab (spread over two days because we believe in sleeping), we ended up with six wonderful projects ranging from an ultra-practical redaction utility to a fake astroturf campaign againt Net Neutrality.
Event Roundup, June 23

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 23, 2014
Open Source Bridge and Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences on the west coast of the U.S. this week, plus Hacks/Hackers round the world.
Event Roundup, June 3

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 4, 2014
“Follow the money” hackathon this weekend throughout Latin America, and get your SRCCON session proposals in by Friday.
Event Roundup, May 21

By Erika Owens

Posted on May 21, 2014
Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Berlin and Lima this week. Deadlines approaching for HacksLabs grants and SRCCON proposals.
Derek Willis on Newsroom Innovation

By Erin Kissane

Posted on May 19, 2014
A tweeted rebuttal to selected claims in the NYT Innovation Report from a journalism-code insider at the Times.
What “Open” Really Means for 538, Vox, and The Upshot

By Erin Kissane

Posted on May 13, 2014
Now that FiveThirtyEight, Vox, and the Upshot have been live for a few weeks, we’re taking a closer look at the data, and especially the code, that each has released.
Event Roundup, May 5

By Erika Owens

Posted on May 5, 2014
Hackathons this weekend in Argentina and Brussels, plus Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world this month.
Event Roundup, Apr 14

By Erika Owens

Posted on April 14, 2014
Excited about maps after State of the Map? FOSS4G deadline is April 15, plus Chicas Poderosas comes to Miami this weekend.
Event Roundup, Mar 31

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Posted on March 31, 2014
Today is deadline day for Wikimania, plus get your Data Journalism Awards entries and Open Source Bridge proposals in by Friday.
Bots with Thoughts

By Jacob Harris

Posted on March 28, 2014
Jacob Harris on magic, aesthetics, and the newsbot frontier.
Quakebots and Pageview Quotas: Bot or Be Botted?

By Matt Waite

Posted on March 27, 2014
Matt Waite on Daft Punk, algorithmic news, hamster wheels, and journalism’s Rushkoff moment.
Welcome to Bot Week

By Erin Kissane

Posted on March 24, 2014
Automated news-gathering tools aren’t new, but they’re multiplying like crazy and getting quite a bit of attention. Little bots have also turned into interesting remixing devices and distribution channels, especially on Twitter. This week on Source, we’re going 100% bot.
Event Roundup, Mar 17

By Erika Owens

Posted on March 17, 2014
Hacks/Hackers are meeting up in NYC, London, and Berlin this week. Plus, deadline for submissions for the Knight News Challenge to answer: “How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?”
Event Roundup, Mar 10

By Erika Owens

Posted on March 10, 2014
Talking open data this weekend in Montevideo, plus lots of Hacks/Hackers events around the world this month.
Event Roundup, Feb 24

By Erika Owens

Posted on February 24, 2014
The NICAR conference is this week, but the news nerd fun doesn’t end there.
New Work in News Code, Feb. 13th 2014

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Posted on February 13, 2014
The Source roundup returns with biweekly summaries of notable interactive features, news apps, data work, and newsroom code commentary.
Event Roundup, Feb 10

By Erika Owens

Posted on February 10, 2014
This week, vote on NICAR lightning talks, pitch ideas to Tribeca Hacks , and finish up that AP-Google Scholarship application.
Event Roundup, Feb 4

By Erika Owens

Posted on February 4, 2014
Send your NICAR lightning talk proposals now and check out ONA and Hackers/Hackers meetups this week.
Event Roundup, Jan 27

By Erika Owens

Posted on January 27, 2014
Fellowship deadlines, conference proposal pitches, and Hacks/Hackers web scraping.
Event Roundup, Jan 21

By Erika Owens

Posted on January 21, 2014
Hacks/Hackers meetups around Europe and the U.S. this week, plus, hacking European Parliament data this weekend.