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Introducing Civic: Elections Data Management from POLITICO
By Tyler Fisher
Posted onA walkthrough of our system to manage election data, plus how you can help us build it.
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Making SecureDrop Easier to Use for More Journalists
By Erika Owens
Posted onOur Q&A; with SecureDrop about a new workstation being developed.
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Things You Made, Nov 8
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Event Roundup, November 5
By Erika Owens
Posted onUpcoming conference, plus a bunch of leadership opportunities that are open for applications.
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Things You Made, Oct 25
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How 21 Newsrooms Pooled Funds for Texas Public Data
By Matt Dempsey
Posted onHigh fees for public data are a huge problem. Here’s how 21 newsrooms in Texas banded together to buy one $3,500 voter database.
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Event Roundup, October 22
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe extended the SRCCON:POWER deadline, plus we’ll be in London this week!
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Front-Page Voter Registration: Q&A with the Ithaca Times
By Marshall Hopkins and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onA Q&A with Marshall Hopkins from the Ithaca Times about journalists helping voters overcome hurdles to civic participation.
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Event Roundup, October 15
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe’ve got SRCCON:POWER and MozFest House unconference events coming up, and other events and deadlines.
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Things You Made, Oct 11
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Event Roundup, October 8
By Erika Owens
Posted onMozFest, SRCCON:POWER, AI Challenge deadline, so much going on this week.
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The Value of Human Text Analysis: Q&A with Alvin Chang
By Alvin Chang and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAlvin Chang of Vox talks to Source about analyzing transcripts of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings and finding what could be measured.
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Things You Made, Sept 28
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Event Roundup, September 24
By Erika Owens
Posted onSo many meetups this week!
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You’re Not Really Listening
By Amy L. Kovac-Ashley
Posted onWhat if our old ways of listening, as reporters, are actually barriers to the work we want to do?
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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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Event Roundup, September 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onTextAV is back this week, plus the NICAR19 deadline nears.
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Things You Made, Sept 13
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup of news nerd projects and things living in our tabs.
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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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Things You Made, Aug 30
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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