How-to The Myth of the Sole and Useful Story
A newspaper investigation is a messy thing, and it generates a lot of stuff—papers, reports, spreadsheets, interview transcripts—that never sees publication. Should that change now that many publications work primarily online?
Roundup A User-Centered Conversation at SRCCON
At SRCCON, we heard a lot about a user-centered approach. What does that mean for journalism?
Roundup You Are Such Polymaths
At SRCCON, OpenNews’s two-day conference in Minneapolis last month, we basked in the collective smarts of 220+ attendees and nearly 50 sessions. Afterward, we heard a lot of lovely feedback (people like snacks and unisex bathrooms and child care, and we are so very happy you were happy). So we’d like to reflect back some thoughts about you. Like: it was really clear, in a tangible way, that you have more gears, switches, and hidden functions than Furiosa’s war rig.
Event SRCCON: How Not to Skew Data with Statistics
- By Kio Stark
- AmyJo Brown, Emma Carew Grovum, Jacob Harris, Chris Keller, Jeff Larson, Aurelia Moser, Latoya Peterson, Sara Schnadt, Noah Veltman
Notes from a lively SRCCON discussion on tricks for avoiding error, led by Aurelia Moser and Chris Keller.
Event SRCCON: Human-Driven Design
Ryan Pitts and Sara Schnadt on how to know your users and build just what they need.
Event The Great SRCCON Brain Dump
- By Erin Kissane
SRCCON, the first-ever OpenNews conference, wrapped up last Friday night at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. As Quartz’s Nikhil Sonnad notes in his wrap-up post, the problem with even the most energetic and inspiring conference is that the motivation found often fades when everyone returns to the daily hustle and sprint. Like Sonnad, we’re confident that the news-code community that showed up in force at SRCCON has the stamina and sustained interest to maintain the momentum that built up in sessions and around the coffee-hacking stations, and we want to help with that as much as possible. We also want to scoop up as much of the energy and intensity and brain-sharing from SRCCON as we can and pour it out into the wider world that couldn’t fit into the physical conference itself.
