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Tracking the Trump Trackers
By Erin Kissane
Posted onWe’ve been collecting examples of “Trump trackers” since shortly after Election Day, and now that we’ve passed the Day 100 mark of Trump’s presidency, we’ve pulled together the most comparable of them to look at what they’re tracking, how they’re visually presenting the information, what kind of language they use, and what structural and design approaches underlie each feature.
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Event Roundup, May 8
By Erika Owens
Posted onONA meetups this week, plus audio hackathons this weekend.
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Event Roundup, May 1
By Erika Owens
Posted onPitch to the first-ever WordCamp for Publishers, plus check out a bunch of other upcoming events.
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Things You Made, April 26
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onA roundup of journalism and code projects from the last few weeks.
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Event Roundup, Apr 24
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s OpenVis Conf time, plus WordCamp for Publishers is looking for your talk ideas.
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Event Roundup, Apr 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onSociety for News Design brings its conference to Charlotte, while WordCamp for Publishers is looking for your session ideas.
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Things You Made, April 12
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from Buzzfeed, the Dallas Morning News, NJ.com, the Oregonian, the Tampa Bay Times, and more.
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Event Roundup, Apr 10
By Erika Owens
Posted onYou have till Thursday to pitch ideas to ONA, and till tomorrow to pitch DjangoCon.
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When The Designer Shows Up in the Design
By Lena Groeger
Posted onThe unintended ways that assumptions, perspectives and biases find their way into our work as journalists, designers and developers. We’ll look at how the decisions we make—what data to base our stories on, what form those stories should take, how they’re designed, who they’re created for—always come out of our particular point of view.
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Event Roundup, Apr 3
By Erika Owens
Posted onToday’s deadline day for Knight Prototype Fund and Matter Seven. You have till Friday to apply to the Data Journalism Awards and pitch to SRCCON!
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Same Diff: Trump’s Budget Proposal
By David Yanofsky
Posted onThe White House budget proposal was released on March 16, and while the document itself was “skinnier” than in years past, news organizations’ efforts in parsing it were as robust as ever. Let’s take a look at how they found their way into and visually reported out the 60-page document.
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Things You Made, March 28
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Pudding, the Sun Sentinel, and more.
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Event Roundup, Mar 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s time to pitch sessions to SRCCON, plus a bunch of meetups this week.
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Event Roundup, Mar 20
By Erika Owens
Posted onA bunch of meetups this week, plus end of March deadlines approach: get your applications in for ProPublica Data Institute and Open Source Bridge.
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Things You Made, March 14
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from the Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica, Reveal, Univision, and more.
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Event Roundup, Mar 13
By Erika Owens
Posted onTons of local meetups this week, plus deadlines including for our travel scholarship.
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Event Roundup, Mar 7
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s the Internet Freedom Festival this week in Spain, plus check out the upcoming deadlines.
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Event Roundup, Feb 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onYep, this week is NICAR, but that’s not all coming up in March.
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Things You Made, Feb 21
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWe’ve returned from roundup hiatus with a new website, a new OpenNews, a bunch of great columnists and new writers, and the another batch of excellent new things you made.
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Event Roundup, Feb 21
By Erika Owens
Posted onMeetups and Misinfocon in the week before NICAR.
Our gatherings could be so much better