Features
Roundup Event Roundup, May 26
- By Erika Owens
Friday is the deadline to apply to the Online Journalism Awards, plus many meetups and conferences coming up in June.
Event Beyond “Be Like Facebook”
The SND judges’ controversial decision to give Facebook its “World’s Best Designed” award in digital—and the resulting unease in the journalism world—points to larger questions in our relationship with third-party platforms and our understanding of the scope of “design.”
Project Tracking Amtrak 188
How curiosity and tinkering let Al Jazeera America publish historical data for a derailed train’s route without Amtrak’s cooperation.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 18
- By Erika Owens
This week, journalist coders work on documentation in Portland while Hacks/Hackers in Toronto and Copenhagen tackle security.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 11
- By Erika Owens
This week you’ll find events about archiving, security, dealing with harassment, mapping, and more.
Event Data Journalism Problems in Europe
- By Zara Rahman
Zara Rahman reports back on surprising insights from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 27
- By Erika Owens
This week new Hacks/Hackers chapters start in Italy and Germany, and, tickets go on sale for SRCCON.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 20
- By Erika Owens
Drones is a popular topic this week at meetups and day-long events.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 13
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week throughout Europe as well as international gatherings in Perugia and Austin.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 6
Deadline to propose to ONA and SRCCON this Friday, plus events in the US, UK, and more.
Interview Bot Benediction, 2015
Our now-traditional #botweek closing peers inside our metaphors and the fragile magic of the bots we make, use, and love.
Roundup Attack of the Helpful Chatbots
A roundup of the little bots that make daily research and administrative tasks easier and more fun.
Project The Strange Tale of FCCliefs
- By Dylan Yep
It started as a joke and turned into hashing through thousands of Net Neutrality comments the hard way, then building a chatbot to post them and interact with curious readers.
How-to Die, Bot, Die!
When and how to say goodbye to the bots when something has gone terribly wrong…or when no one’s really laughing anymore.
How-to Hi, Weatherbot!
A Node-based Twitter bot, one easy step at a time—plus the way John Keefe teaches basic botmaking to class of journalism/design students.
Tool Mockingjay: A Smarter Repeater
Meet our Twitter bot that follows a list of users and retweets them when they mention a certain topic.
Tool Thank You, Electionbot
Offloading some of a burden of continuous human monitoring to a friendly bot can be just the comfort you need on a cold Election Night.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 30
- By Erika Owens
It’s a slow week for events, so why not spend some time proposing talks to upcoming conferences?
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 23
- By Erika Owens
It’s the last day to apply for grants for women journalists, plus lots of meetups and hackathons this week.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 16
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in Manchester, Portland, Vienna, and Philadelphia, plus Thursday is the deadline to submit idea to the Knight News Challenge: Elections.
