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What does peer support in journalism look like: Insights from U.S. and international experts
By Naseem Miller
Posted onEstablishing a peer support network or becoming a peer supporter is not as complicated as it may sound, according to a panel of experts at this year’s Mental Health Journalism Summit.
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Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found
By Sanjin Ibrahimovic
Posted onA side-by-side comparison of eight tools for extracting tabular data from documents, using multiple kinds of documents, from DocumentCloud.
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Fact-checking in 2024? Five tools to help with research and promotion
By Erica Ryan
Posted onNewsrooms often devote more time to fact-checking during election season—for good reason! These tools can make the most of yours.
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Much of what made social media feel special to journalists is gone. What now?
By Aditi Mukund
Posted onAt SRCCON 2023, we talked about the spaces we’ve lost, why we miss them, and what we can do to take power back from platforms.
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How we used an FOI project to show the public the power they can wield
By Tom Cardoso
Posted onSecret Canada is an investigation and a public-service teaching tool. Advice about record requests can inspire your readers, too.
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Advice for sharing security advice
By Martin Shelton
Posted onHow to tailor guidance for your audience, and come up with a plan for keeping it up-to-date.
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Covering trans issues well just means doing journalism well
By Kae Petrin
Posted onWe need more accurate and nuanced stories, and the Trans Journalists Association is building a community and resources to help.
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Project Diary: How we made the Wage Theft Monitor
By Max Siegelbaum
Posted onHow Documented fought for data about businesses that have stolen from their workers, and what you need to know to do this kind of project in your state.
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Magic spreadsheets to help you investigate neighborhood inequities
By Leon Yin
Posted onHere’s how to use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code.
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I tested how well ChatGPT can pull data out of messy PDFs (and here’s a script so you can too)
By Brandon Roberts
Posted onScattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Keep DEI a priority, even when the economy says otherwise
By Joanne Griffith
Posted onWhen news organizations say they support diversity efforts but their actions say otherwise, teams and communities lose faith.
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Running scrapers on GitHub to simplify your workflow
By Iris Lee
Posted onHow the LAT Data and Graphics team uses GitHub Actions to keep code and data in one place, and track scraper history for free.
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How we tracked down and mapped historic street signs in New York City’s Chinatown
By Aaron Reiss
Posted on“Small data”—the kind you might have to get out and collect yourself—can uncover the deeply personal history of a place.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: The after is the hard part
By P. Kim Bui
Posted onAt the beginning of a working relationship, you act with more transparency as you get to know the other person. That same transparency is necessary for the after.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: How to give your interns a leg up in their next job search
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onNot every internship is going to end with a job offer. Here’s how you can give your interns a boost as they enter the job market.
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Story Recipe: Exploring Census microdata about your county
By Rebecca Tippett
Posted onWe recently received a request from a resident in Lincoln County, asking for assistance in locating data related to digital inclusion, in order to help enroll residents who qualify for the FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit. Information that can answer this question is collected by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey—the summary tables provide details on household computer availability and internet subscriptions, poverty status at various levels of the federal poverty line, and SNAP receipt. What the tables don’t provide is the intersection of these characteristics. To answer this, we need the microdata or individual record data. Here’s how we went about answering this question.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Leadership and management are not the same thing
By P. Kim Bui
Posted onNewsrooms must create ways for people to learn to lead without pushing people into management.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Leaders, you need to make room or move out
By Robert Hernandez
Posted onGoing beyond a seat at the table for journalists of color.
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Why web accessibility matters to me
By Aditi Bhandari
Posted onWhen I first found out that there were things I needed to fix to make my work in journalism more accessible, I went about it the same way I learned to code: going with the solution that appears most commonly among search results. I’ve spent the past year trying to course-correct by making an active effort to learn more.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Everyone can help close the wage gap for journalists of color
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onYou don’t have to tell EVERYONE how much money you currently or have made in order to participate in salary transparency.