Jonathan Stray
Co-founder & Advisor of Workbench. Jonathan is currently working as a research scholar at Columbia Journalism School. He has written for the New York Times, Associated Press, Foreign Policy, ProPublica, and Wired.
Jonathan’s work on Source
Code
Projects
- Interactive Data Journalism: A One-Semester Syllabus
- Meet Disputed Territories and SSN Redactor
- You Got the Documents. Now What?
- Drawing Conclusions from Data
- Strongbox Reactions, Part II
Articles by Jonathan
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Introducing Workbench, an Open Source Platform
We made a data journalism tool so that anyone, at any level, can create and learn.
Posted onFive great things you can do with Workbench, whether you want to scrape a site, clean data, analyze data, or learn data journalism without code.
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Interactive Data Journalism: A One-Semester Syllabus
A tested framework for teaching, and a practical guide for learning
Posted onData journalism draws on a remarkable array of skills—everything from statistics to graphic design to FOIA requests.
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Security for Journalists, Part Two: Threat Modeling
Jonathan Stray on how to protect yourself, your sources, and your scoop on sensitive stories
Posted onJonathan Stray on how to protect yourself, your sources, and your scoop on sensitive stories
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Security for Journalists, Part One: The Basics
Jonathan Stray on what every single person in your news org should be doing to secure the newsroom
Posted onJonathan Stray on what every single person in your news org should be doing to secure the newsroom.
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You Got the Documents. Now What?
Jonathan Stray’s guide to turning documents into data you can run with
Posted onJonathan Stray’s guide to turning documents into data you can run with.
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Drawing Conclusions from Data
In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness
Posted onIn this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.
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Strongbox Reactions, Part II
Jacob Harris, Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas weigh in
Posted onWe asked for your thoughts on Strongbox, the New Yorker’s new implementation of DeadDrop. Our first wave of responses includes the New York Times’ Jacob Harris, the Overview Project’s Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas, OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica.