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Event Roundup, December 19

By Erika Owens

Posted on December 19, 2018
So many upcoming deadlines. If you have time at the end of the year, check out some fellowships to apply for or conferences to pitch!
Five Years in News Nerd Careers (Part II)

By Brian Boyer, Kaeti Hinck, Geoff Hing, Gabriela Rodríguez Berón, Matt Waite, and Aaron Williams

Posted on October 19, 2017
Marking our five-year anniversary with a community roundtable on what’s changed since we launched—part two.
Five Years in News Nerd Careers

By Emma Carew Grovum, Tiff Fehr, Tyler Fisher, Mago Torres, and Lam Thuy Vo

Posted on October 18, 2017
Marking our five-year anniversary with a community roundtable on what’s changed since we launched.
What Do You Do, Again? Part IV

By Ryan Sholin, Kavya Sukumar, and Nicole Zhu

Posted on October 13, 2017
As we approach the fifth anniversary of Source’s existence, we’re taking an anecdotal look at the humans who do the often confusingly described work of journalism technology, technology in journalism, data…stuff…in newsrooms, and so on. We set out to discover what happens behind the titles, one job at a time.
What Do You Do, Again? Part III

By Marie Connelly, Chris Keller, and Terry Parris, Jr.

Posted on October 6, 2017
As we approach the fifth anniversary of Source’s existence, we’re taking an anecdotal look at the humans who do the often confusingly described work of journalism technology, technology in journalism, data…stuff…in newsrooms, and so on: What exactly does a producer do? How about an engagement reporter? Is “data editor” the same role across newsrooms? We set out to discover what happens behind the titles, one job at a time. (Read Part One and Part Two.)
What Do You Do, Again? Part II

By Anne Li, Brittany Mayes, and Steven Rich

Posted on September 28, 2017
What does a producer do? How about an engagement reporter? Is “data editor” the same role across newsrooms? We set out to discover what happens behind the titles, one job at a time.
What Do You Do, Again?

By Mike Janssen, Tyler Machado, and Julia Wolfe

Posted on September 25, 2017
What does a producer do? How about an engagement reporter? Is “data editor” the same role across newsrooms? We set out to discover what happens behind the titles, one job at a time.
Ms. Management: Driving Our Employees Over the Edge

By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

Posted on July 19, 2017
Our fetishisation of stoicism means we tend to dismiss deteriorating mental health breakdowns as mere distractions, best treated with an hour or so of venting to colleagues and several infusions of hard liquor.
Do News Bots Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Samantha Sunne

Posted on April 29, 2016
Bots have been making the news more and more lately, partly due to the underlying technology becoming more common, and partly due to bots becoming rampaging racists. PCWorld recently suggested that 2016 may be “the year of the bots.” But if you read the article, all the examples are of chatbots—bots, to be sure, but only a subset.
Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part 3

By Dana Amihere, Brian Boyer, Daniel Drepper, Maite Fernandez, Sydette Harry, Erika Owens, Ryan Pitts, Linda Sandvik, Elisabeth Soep, Matt Waite, Sisi Wei, and Jue Yang

Posted on December 23, 2015
As we did last year, we’ve asked a couple of dozen people from all around the news-nerd community to tell us about one thing—article, feature, app, tool, or something else entirely—that they loved in 2015. This week, we’re publishing their responses, from interactives to project management software. We hope you find here at least one thing that eases your work, inspires new angles on your stories, and helps carry you through to 2016.
Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part 2

By Alison Benjamin, Joshua Benton, Gurman Bhatia, Julia B. Chan, Liz Danzico, Kenan Davis, Tiff Fehr, Joe Germuska, Rich Harris, Kaeti Hinck, Alyson Hurt, Alexandra Kanik, Alexis Lloyd, Sarah Moughty, Latoya Peterson, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Jason Santa Maria, Allen Tan, Derek Watkins, and Ashley Wu

Posted on December 17, 2015
As we did last year, we’ve asked a couple of dozen people from all around the news-nerd community to tell us about one thing—article, feature, app, tool, or something else entirely—that they loved in 2015. This week, we’re publishing their responses, from interactives to project management software. We hope you find here at least one thing that eases your work, inspires new angles on your stories, and helps carry you through to 2016.
Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part I

By Becky Bowers, Juan Elosua, Tiff Fehr, Tyler Fisher, Joe Germuska, Jacob Harris, Andrew Losowsky, Lauren Rabaino, Kavya Sukumar, Derek Watkins, MaryJo Webster, Ben Welsh, Derek Willis, and Julia Wolfe

Posted on December 16, 2015
As we did last year, we’ve asked a couple of dozen people from all around the news-nerd community to tell us about one thing—article, feature, app, tool, or something else entirely—that they loved in 2015. This week, we’re publishing their responses, from interactives to project management software. We hope you find here at least one thing that eases your work, inspires new angles on your stories, and helps carry you through to 2016.
What AMP (Maybe) Means for News Developers

By Ted Han, Justin Reese, Thomas Wilburn, and Julia Wolfe

Posted on October 13, 2015
When Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP, naturally) arrived late last week, the journalism internet produced a rainbow of responses. We invited a few news developers to comment at greater length, and they dug into the issues with gusto and rigor.
Front-End Performance with Vox Media

By Daniel Bachhuber and Erin Kissane

Posted on June 3, 2015
A chat roundtable from the News Nerdery Slack group focused on practical ways to make sites (and news apps) run faster.
US Shutdown Scuttles Data

By Dan Sinker

Posted on October 3, 2013
As the government shutdown grinds into its third day, many news developers, civic data hackers, and open gov activists are starting to feel the hurt due to the suspension of most government data feeds, APIs, and websites. How they’re adapting and collaborating to fill the gaps of the shutdown.
A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts

By Renee DiResta

Posted on February 7, 2013
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.