Joe Germuska
Joe Germuska is the Chief Nerd at Northwestern University’s Knight Lab, a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces. Before joining Knight Lab, Joe was one of the founding members of the Chicago Tribune News Apps team. In his free time… who are we kidding, Joe doesn’t have free time any more because he’s also enrolled in NU’s Masters in Product Design & Development program.
Joe’s work on Source
Code
Projects
- Caregiving in and around Journalism
- Eleven Awesome Things You Can Do with csvkit
- Illinois School Report Cards
Articles by Joe
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SRCCON Spotlight: Through an iPhone Darkly
Joe Germuska’s session on prescient science fiction
Posted onJoe Germuska’s well-loved session on science fiction gathered presenters for short talks on real and imagined futures, especially focused on prescient representations of media, culture, and interconnectivity.
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Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part 2
Appreciation of usefulness and bar-raising at the end of a long, complicated year
Posted onAs 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.
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Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part I
Appreciation of usefulness and bar-raising at the end of a long, complicated year
Posted onAs 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.
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Well Hello, Census
Joe Germuska on the iterative, human-centered process that’s made the new Census Reporter project especially awesome
Posted onJoe Germuska on the iterative, human-centered process that’s made the new Census Reporter project especially awesome.
7 tips for data-driven journalism about LGBTQ+ communities