Features

1. 

   Ten Years of ProPublica: a Q&A on Leading the Way

   By Ryann Grochowski Jones, Lindsay Muscato, and Sisi Wei

   Posted on July 13, 2018

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

2. 

   A Scripted Chat Tool that Anyone Can Use

   By Erika Owens

   Posted on June 15, 2018

   A Q&A about a new Q&A tool. Very meta.

3. 

   The Work We Do Tells Amazing People That They Do Not Belong

   By Sydette Harry and Erin Kissane

   Posted on December 7, 2017

   With SRCCON:WORK just getting underway, here’s our Q&A with our opening speaker, Sydette Harry of the Coral Project and the Mozilla Foundation. Sydette spoke this morning about journalism’s inclination to skip the critical questions about diversity and representation.

4. 

   Mental Health Strategies for the Non-Invincible Newsroom

   By Erin Brown and Erin Kissane

   Posted on December 5, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.

5. 

   Building Collaboration Without Surveillance

   By Mandy Brown and Erin Kissane

   Posted on December 4, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Mandy Brown.

6. 

   Changing Newsrooms from the Ground Up and the Top Down

   By Erin Kissane and Jessica Morrison

   Posted on November 29, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.

7. 

   What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic, Pt. 2

   By Erin Kissane and David Yee

   Posted on November 28, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A with David Yee.

8. 

   What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic

   By Erin Kissane and Nicole Zhu

   Posted on November 27, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Nicole Zhu.

9. 

   A Blind Application Process Might Be Easier Than You Think

   By Lindsay Muscato and Sisi Wei

   Posted on November 22, 2017

   SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. First up is ProPublica’s Sisi Wei, who will speak about blind hiring processes

10. 

    You’re Perfect, We Can’t Hire You

    By Erin Kissane and Disha Raychaudhuri

    Posted on November 21, 2017

    SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Disha Raychaudhuri.

11. 

    All About the New ProPublica Site

    By Erin Kissane and David Sleight

    Posted on August 31, 2017

    A Q&A about how the new ProPublica site came to be.

12. 

    Harlo Holmes on Newsroom Security in 2017

    By Harlo Holmes and Erin Kissane

    Posted on June 14, 2017

    Harlo Holmes is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist who leads digital security work for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the organization co-founded by Daniel Ellsberg and Trevor Timm in 2012 to fund and protect adversarial investigative journalism. Holmes has long been a contributor to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project, and was a founding member of the DeepLab cyberfeminist collective. In 2014, Holmes was a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at the New York Times.

13. 

    Q&A with Emily Goligoski

    By Emily Goligoski and Erin Kissane

    Posted on June 2, 2017

    Emily Goligoski has spent nearly three years doing deep-dive ethnographic research as user experience research lead at the New York Times, where she analyzed reader interactions with breaking news stories, studied millennial news junkies, and more. Goligoski recently announced that she is leaving the Times to join the brand-new Membership Puzzle Project, a collaborative effort between De Correspondent and NYU, and kindly agreed to speak with us during her transition between projects.

14. 

    How (and Why) ProPublica Got Into the Elections Game

    By Lena Groeger, Erin Kissane, Scott Klein, Ken Schwencke, and Derek Willis

    Posted on September 9, 2016

    Yesterday morning, ProPublica announced two new projects: Electionland, a large-scale intiative to report on voting access and problems in the upcoming US elections, and Election DataBot, a comprehensive election-info data tracker and feed.

15. 

    How We Made a Story That Changes Based on Your Birth Year

    By Lindsay Muscato and Soo Oh

    Posted on March 1, 2016

    Vox’s recent interactive on teen health asks the user for their birth year and then, based on that, changes the text of the story. We thought it was a fascinatingly personal way to contextualize CDC health data, leveraging readers’ innate curiosity about how they stack up. We talked to developer Soo Oh about the process.

16. An Open Guide to Zika Data

    By Erin Kissane and Jeremy Singer-Vine

    Posted on February 4, 2016

    Over a month after Brazil declared a state of emergency in response to a Zika outbreak, clear information on the virus is hard to come by. On Monday, BuzzFeed’s Jeremy Singer-Vine started an open guide to Zika-related data, to collect what we do know and help other journalists do the same. It points to resources like global and country-specific data on the spread of the virus, its mosquitos, and microcephaly, from respected sources. We asked why he started it, how he curates it, and where he can use everyone’s help.

17. 

    Mapping Inspiration: A Q&A with Latoya Peterson

    By Lindsay Muscato and Latoya Peterson

    Posted on November 6, 2015

    Latoya Peterson creates all kinds of groundbreaking digital work with Fusion. We spoke with Peterson about her Mental Map project, an interactive series that traces and celebrates creative roots.

18. 

    How We Made ‘Homan Square: a portrait of Chicago’s detainees’

    By Kenan Davis, Rich Harris, Erin Kissane, Nadja Popovich, and Kenton Powell

    Posted on October 22, 2015

    On October 19, the Guardian published Homan Square: A Portrait of Chicago’s Detainees as a part of its ongoing investigation into the Chicago Police Department’s alleged abuses of detainee rights at a warehouse facility on Chicago’s west side. We spoke with the Guardian interactive team responsible for the interactive feature, both in their NYC offices and via email.

19. 

    Remote Control: Mandy Brown of Vox Product

    By Mandy Brown and Kaeti Hinck

    Posted on June 10, 2015

    In the first installment of our new series on remote work in journalism-tech, Kaeti Hinck speaks with Mandy Brown about her setup, her team’s approach, and her advice to to anyone who wants to go remote.

20. 

    Bot Benediction, 2015

    By Ingrid Burrington

    Posted on April 3, 2015

    Our now-traditional #botweek closing peers inside our metaphors and the fragile magic of the bots we make, use, and love.