The same speakers present the same slides about the same problems to the same audience, year after year. New or outside voices rarely make it into these conversations, because who counts as a “key” ...

If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media ...

Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to web ...

Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock. You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent ...

In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ ...

Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...

Journalists love telling other people’s stories–and we’re good at it. But many journalists struggle to tell their own stories, particularly when it comes to their own work. Some of the best news ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

Here are the results of the 2022 News Nerd Survey, which offer a snapshot of our community and hopes to understand its needs. We are thankful for the responses. This survey follows the previous ones ...

traci kato-kiriyama addresses the crowd during Perspectives – Los Angeles. (Andrew Losowsky) It started in a park. We were sitting on a bench, talking about how journalism conferences were all well ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is based on this presentation for NACIS 2022. My name is Aaron, I am a freelance journalist who specializes in interactive, map-based storytelling. My work typically ...