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Event Roundup, May 30
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Posted onStill time to think about your Online Journalism Award entries, plus a bunch of upcoming events.
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Tracking the Trump Trackers
By Erin Kissane
Posted onWe’ve been collecting examples of “Trump trackers” since shortly after Election Day, and now that we’ve passed the Day 100 mark of Trump’s presidency, we’ve pulled together the most comparable of them to look at what they’re tracking, how they’re visually presenting the information, what kind of language they use, and what structural and design approaches underlie each feature.
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FOIA Data Models for Everyone
By Jeremy B. Merrill
Posted onBest practices for FOIA requests.
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Event Roundup, May 1
By Erika Owens
Posted onPitch to the first-ever WordCamp for Publishers, plus check out a bunch of other upcoming events.
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Things You Made, April 12
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from Buzzfeed, the Dallas Morning News, NJ.com, the Oregonian, the Tampa Bay Times, and more.
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Shields Up: Developing Security Skepticism
By Martin Shelton
Posted onA little fear can motivate us to take action. But as consumers of security news, even the most well-intentioned reporting can scare us into paralysis—or worse, encourage us to adopt behaviors that promote a false sense of security.
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When The Designer Shows Up in the Design
By Lena Groeger
Posted onThe unintended ways that assumptions, perspectives and biases find their way into our work as journalists, designers and developers. We’ll look at how the decisions we make—what data to base our stories on, what form those stories should take, how they’re designed, who they’re created for—always come out of our particular point of view.
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Event Roundup, Apr 3
By Erika Owens
Posted onToday’s deadline day for Knight Prototype Fund and Matter Seven. You have till Friday to apply to the Data Journalism Awards and pitch to SRCCON!
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Same Diff: Trump’s Budget Proposal
By David Yanofsky
Posted onThe White House budget proposal was released on March 16, and while the document itself was “skinnier” than in years past, news organizations’ efforts in parsing it were as robust as ever. Let’s take a look at how they found their way into and visually reported out the 60-page document.
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Things You Made, March 28
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onProjects from the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Pudding, the Sun Sentinel, and more.
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Event Roundup, Mar 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s time to pitch sessions to SRCCON, plus a bunch of meetups this week.
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Event Roundup, Mar 20
By Erika Owens
Posted onA bunch of meetups this week, plus end of March deadlines approach: get your applications in for ProPublica Data Institute and Open Source Bridge.
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Event Roundup, Mar 7
By Erika Owens
Posted onIt’s the Internet Freedom Festival this week in Spain, plus check out the upcoming deadlines.
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Event Roundup, Feb 27
By Erika Owens
Posted onYep, this week is NICAR, but that’s not all coming up in March.
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Event Roundup, Jan 30
By Erika Owens
Posted onDeadlines this week for some major journalism fellowships, plus a bunch of upcoming events.
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How We Made “Rewind the Red Planet”
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onThe mini-series Mars, that aired on the National Geographic Channel in November 2016, imagined what it would be like to live on Mars in the near future. For the interactive narrative Rewind the Red Planet, we endeavored to show Mars as it was before it was a red desert, back to a time when liquid water may have run freely, between three and four billion years ago. We wanted to allow readers to see ancient Mars in its entirety from a planetary scale, how it may have featured a vast northern ocean, or may have had water trapped in expansive glaciers.
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Event Roundup, Jan 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onData journalism training in Berlin, plus a bunch of upcoming meetups around the world.
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Event Roundup, Dec 5
By Erika Owens
Posted onCleverly named meetup from Journocoders, and a scant few other events and deadlines before the end of the year.
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Event Roundup, Oct 24
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Posted onThe Mozilla Festival is back this weekend. We’ll be in London and have coverage here on Source.
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Event Roundup, Oct 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onThe Mozilla Festival comes to London next week, and this week there will be a Hacks/Hackers London meetup and BBC hackathon.
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