If 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.

When academics and journalists collaborate, they can combine their skills to tackle complex questions and communicate the answers in ways that can have a huge impact on society.

How we built our massive analysis of sexual assault cases in Minnesota, with tools that anyone on our team could use.

How can SRCCON session facilitators make the most of their time with participants, and help everyone get the most out of the conference? I talked with several people who have facilitated sessions about what went well, what surprised them, and what helped people get most engaged.

A recap of our SRCCON session on how ad tech could be so much better.

The Media Party is next week, and they’re honoring innovative projects.

A data project that shows how the U.S. government has prioritized immigration deterrence and criminalization.

Our regular biweekly roundup.

A walkthrough of making an iconic index new again.

Who do you know who is editorially minded, works well with CMSes, likes HTML/CSS, enthusiastically corrects people’s grammar, and is great at managing details, big projects or both?”

Our regular biweekly roundup

Our new open-source Slackchat tool is ready for everyone.

Intro to R MOOC starts today, plus upcoming conferences.

The long road to a series and a podcast, as a solo journalist.

NAHJ Convention is this week, plus the ONA Community Award deadline.

We spoke to two members of ProPublica’s leadership, about working, leading, and looking forward.

Our regular biweekly roundup returns after a short break.

The process for loading Illinois campaign finance data used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.

You’ve got today to apply to the MJ Bear fellowship, plus meetups this week.

Notes and links to what happened at SRCCON 2018.