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How people used the Scholarships+ program in 2022
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onOur Scholarships+ program offers funding to help people pay for events and programs that develop their work as a journalist with data and code. This recap of the programs we helped people take part in in 2022 is part of our commitment to transparency and trust in our work—and we also think it’s a great source of ideas for community members who want to keep building their networks and careers.
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Survey time: Tell us about your work
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe News Nerd Survey is back and needs your input.
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Buddying up with the news-nerd community
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onWhere do you turn with a question that’s stopping your data project in its tracks? If you don’t have a news-nerd colleague nearby, there’s a whole community out there happy to help. Here are three ways you can tap into networks of support, both right now and next week.
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Last Thoughts for a New Year
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onReflections on Source, as our editor steps away from the desk.
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Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data
By Lam Thuy Vo
Posted onToday we’re featuring an excerpt from Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data by Lam Thuy Vo, which is being released this week.
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Tell Us Who You’re Grateful For, and Thank a Peer Who Made the Year Better
By Lindsay Muscato and Ryan Pitts
Posted onExpress your gratitude to the peers who’ve helped you make it through the year known as 2019.
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Every Working Journalist in the U.S. Needs to Understand the 2020 Census. We’ll Help You Host a Workshop On It.
By Joe Amditis
Posted onThe Center for Cooperative Media has put together a guide to help you organize a 2020 Census workshop for local journalists.
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What Local Coders Can Tell Us About Our Industry
By Erika Owens
Posted onOur takeaways from deep-dive interviews with coders in smaller, regional, and local publications.
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Last Call for SRCCON 2018
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Posted onOur call for attendees closes Friday, April 20.
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Introducing the Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom
By Amanda Hickman, Kevin O’Gorman, and Ryan Pitts
Posted onA practical, collaboratively written guide that everyone in newsrooms can use.
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Spring Forward
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onWhat spring looks like for Source.
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Shift Change
By Erin Kissane
Posted onI am excited about where you are going, and it has been a gift to spend five years in service of your work.
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At the End of 2017
By Erin Kissane
Posted onVery subjectively, it was an astonishing year in data and interactive journalism. Every week, we found ourselves both horrified by the subject matter and thrilled to see our community producing so much good work, and doing so with open kindness and generosity.
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Wanted: Your Syllabi and Most-Shared Resources
By Erin Kissane
Posted onWe launched Source Guides a couple of years ago as a way of giving readers new angles on our archives—but it quickly became apparent that they’d work even better if they included external resources as well. Earlier this year, we opened up Guides to non-staff curators, and as we look toward the end of the year, we want your Guide pitches.
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Five Years, What a Surprise
By Erin Kissane
Posted onHow we made Source, and why, and what happened then.
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Tell Us About Your Work in Journalism Tech
By Erika Owens
Posted onJournalists spend a lot of time with data, sometimes that data is even about themselves. Last year, over 500 “news nerds”—the developers, designers, editors, data analysts, and product folks who work with tech and journalism every day—told us about their teams, newsrooms, and what would help them in this work. The results helped shape our work at Source and OpenNews, and folks found it so useful that we’ve brought it back as an annual News Nerd Survey.
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SRCCON Spotlight: Accessibility in Media
By John Burn-Murdoch, Joanna S. Kao, and Erin Kissane
Posted onThe session on accessibility and media run by Joanna S. Kao and John Burn-Murdoch in 2016 was one of our favorites, and deals with one of those topics that hovers at the fringe of most newsroom-dev conversations.
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SRCCON Spotlight: Building a Culture of Documentation
By Erin Kissane, Lauren Rabaino, and Kelsey Scherer
Posted onLast year’s SRCCON participants got a lot out of Lauren Rabaino & Kelsey Scherer’s docs session, and we’ve found ourselves returning to the transcript more than once.
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SRCCON Spotlight: Keeping Data Stories Human
By Erin Kissane and William Wolfe-Wylie
Posted onOne of the SRCCON 2016 sessions that attendees talked about most was “Keeping People at the Forefront of Data Stories,” facilitated by William Wolfe-Wylie and based on his experience working on the CBC News project, “Missing and Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls.”
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When Hiring Isn’t Hell It Looks Like This
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onLast week, I published an open letter to hiring managers highlighting how broken the hiring process is in journalism. The response was overwhelming. Almost all of the feedback was from people, mostly women, sharing stories of similar, frustrating experiences. That made the good experiences shine like gems, so I asked people to tell me more about what good hiring practices and processes stood out to them while interviewing and hiring.
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