2025-09-25 Last week, the Trump administration announced one of its most aggressive immigration policies yet: a $100,000 fee for filing new H-1B petitions, the visa program that allows U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialized fields. Much …›
2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›
2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›
2025-03-03 How we navigated the shift from Enzyme to React Testing Library at The New York Times.Illustration by Iris LeiBy Felipe BuenañoAs part of our efforts to maintain and improve the functionality and performance of The New York Times core website, we r …›
2024-10-02 A look into how editorially-driven algorithms assist content curation on The New York Times home page.Illustration by Vivek ThakkerBy Zhen YangWhether on the web or the app, the home page of The New York Times is a crucial gateway, setting the stage …›
2024-09-03 By Madison Karas (Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash) 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 …›
2024-06-26 How upgrading to React 18 energized The New York Times website — and how we tackled some of the challenges we faced along the way.Illustration by Ben HickeyBy Ilya GurevichAs software engineers at The New York Times, we place a high value on p …›
2024-03-26 Illustration by Henri CampeãBy Kathy YangExperimentation is an important part of product development at The New York Times — it helps us measure the impact of our changes, ship features safely, and gain insight into user behavior. Experiments …›
2024-03-08 An exploration into The New York Times Growth Data team’s process of designing and building a new subscription reporting model.Illustration by Giulio BonaseraBy Amir MalekThe New York Times digital subscription offering is a complex service that ha …›
2022-08-22 by Lylla Younes and Al Shaw ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigate …›
2022-04-21 by Ruth Talbot On Thursday, ProPublica added staff COVID-19 vaccination data to the Nursing Home Inspect project. The virus has killed more than 150,000 nursi …›
2021-05-14 by Andrea Suozzo On Friday, we updated our Nonprofit Explorer database in two big ways. First, we’ve added the ability to view key employees and officers right on an orga …›
2021-01-11 by Lisa Larson-Walker In the midst of Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol, Twitter user @thejuliacarter gave voice to the outrage many felt at the stark difference be …›
2020-10-02 by Frank Sharpe As a member of the team responsible for keeping ProPublica’s website online, there were times when I wished our site were static. Static sites have a simp …›
2020-03-06 It's hard to do truly custom interactives work within WordPress. INN Labs' Pym.js Embeds plugin is built to make it easier for your newsroom to embed your latest data project, with help from NPR's Pym.js library. Other solutions often involve p …›
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2019-12-13 by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together hundreds of newsrooms around th …›
2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›
2019-10-23 by Rachel Glickhouse For nearly three years, ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project has given newsrooms around the country access to a database of personal reports sent to …›
2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›
2019-09-11 by Rachel Glickhouse On Wednesday, we’re launching a beta test of a new software tool. It’s called Collaborate, and it makes it possible for multiple newsrooms to work …›
2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›
2019-08-16 Workday Minnesota began publishing in 2000 with support from Minnesota’s labor community and was the first online labor news publication in the United States. Since then, Workday has won many awards and has grown to be a trusted source for news …›
2019-08-14 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re launching a guidebook on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets. Since our founding 11 years ago, ProPublica h …›
2019-08-07 Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press I used to work as a sound mixer on film sets, noticing any hums and beeps that would make an actor’s performance useless after a long …›
2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›
2019-07-15 Miranda with Jonathan Kealing (INN’s Chief Network Officer) and INN Members Candice Forman from Outlier Media and Asraa Mustufa from Chicago Reporter. We had a blast meeting and chatting in person! I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going in …›
2019-06-21 Ben Keith and Lucia Walinchus with Eye on Ohio's first-place award for magazine website. The award plaque. We're happy to relay the news that INN Member Eye on Ohio won First Place Magazine Website in the Press Club of Cleveland's ann …›
2019-06-10 by Hannah Fresques and Meg Marco So you want to explore the world through data. But how do you actually *do* it? Hadley Wickham is a leading developer of open …›
2019-06-06 by Ken Schwencke On Thursday, we launched a new feature for our Nonprofit Explorer database: The ability to search the full text of nearly 3 million electronically filed no …›
2019-05-31 INN Labs is happy to announce our newest plugin, the Republication Tracker Tool. The Republication Tracker Tool allows publishers to share their stories by other websites and then track engagement of those shared stories with Google Analytics. The …›
2019-05-31 INN Labs is pleased to announce an important update to the Link Roundups plugin! If you run a daily or weekly newsletter collecting headlines from around the state, region, or within a particular industry, the Link Roundups plugin will make it easi …›
2019-03-04 by David Eads Millions of motorists in Chicago have gotten a parking ticket. So when we built The Ticket Trap — an interactive news application that lets people explore t …›
2019-02-28 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re announcing new tools, documentation and training to help news organizations collaborate on data journalism projects. Newsro …›
2018-10-12 by Rachel Glickhouse In this ever-changing industry, new roles are emerging that redefine how we do journalism: audience engagement director, social newsgathering reporter, …›
2018-10-08 by Jeremy B. Merrill We launched a new collaboration on Monday that will make it even easier to be part of our Facebook Political Ad Collector project. In cas …›
2018-09-18 by Derek Willis and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee We launched the Election DataBot in 2016 with the idea that it would help reporters, researchers and concerned citizens more easi …›
2018-09-12 by Derek Willis On Wednesday we added details to our FEC Itemizer database on nearly $763 million in contributions to the political nonprofit organizations — also known a …›