Features
Roundup Why EveryBlock Mattered to Us
Yesterday morning, EveryBlock announced its sudden closure by its parent company, NBC. The news developer and civic code worlds reacted with intense sadness and a recognition of the advances made possible by EveryBlock and its founders.
Roundtable A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts
Sha Hwang and I brought together a panel of four experts—Rachel Binx, Mike Bostock, Tom Carden, and Scott Murray—to talk about their processes last month at San Francisco’s General Assembly. Here’s what we learned.
Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup, February 7th
- By Erin Kissane
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen new apps, new map releases, and plenty of community projects and conversations. In the US, the NICAR convention is around the corner (see Chrys Wu’s preparatory write-up). Also, just about everyone got hacked.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 4
- By Erika Owens
Get in application gear: Friday is the last day to apply for the AP-Google Scholarship and session proposals for the IRE conference are due in two weeks.
Project Chris Amico on the View Source Podcast
On the most recent episode of Dave Stanton’s View Source podcast, Chris Amico walks through the process of making Your Warming World.
Project Fast Hacks: Solr and Newscoop
News startups in and around Georgia helped improve search in Newscoop content management system using Solr.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 28
- By Erika Owens
Google Journalism Fellowship deadline is this week. This weekend, learning with Code with me and hacking with the Sunlight Foundation and Digital Democracy.
Project Chase Davis on fec-standardizer
Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.
Project How We Made “Your Warming World”
New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 22
- By Erika Owens
Meetups in Philadelphia, New York, and Madrid on Thursday and learning and hacking this weekend.
Project How We Made “For Amusement Only”
- By Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum, Erika Owens
- Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum
- The Verge
In a Q&A with Source’s Erika Owens, the team behind For Amusement Only explains how it was done.
Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup, January 17th
- By Erin Kissane
Interactive features, new code, and blog posts dealing with the problems of working with data and code in and around newsrooms.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 14
- By Erika Owens
Lots of opportunities for learning: events in Philadelphia and Vienna as well as fellowship programs taking applications now.
Project Fast Hacks: GameDay Live
The Daily Emerald’s Ivar Vong breaks down a homepage takeover experiment.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 7
- By Erika Owens
New year and lots of event planning underway. Plus, we’re entering awards entry season: the IRE deadline is this Friday.
Project How We Made Snow Fall
- By Steve Duenes, Erin Kissane, Andrew Kueneman, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler
- John Branch, Steve Duenes, Hannah Fairfield, Ruth Fremson, Wayne Kamidoi, Andrew Kueneman, Sam Manchester, Alan McLean, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler, Joe Ward, Jeremy White, Josh Williams
- The New York Times
Reporters, designers, developers, and editors who worked on the NYT’s Snow Fall explain how they pulled it off.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Dan Sinker
Dan Sinker, head of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, gets a year-in-review post in under the wire.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Ryan Pitts
- By Ryan Pitts
Our own Ryan Pitts on the tools that helped him do better work and the projects and sites that inspired him in 2012.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Heather Billings
The Chicago Tribune’s Heather Billings talks about the methods, tools, and changes that made her year.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Shazna Nessa
- By Shazna Nessa
The AP’s Shazna Nessa breaks down five breakthrough design developments and news features from 2012.
