Category Archives: News-tech

Doc Searls Weblog→ Why selling personal data is a bad idea

2024-03-27 Prompt: “a field of many different kinds of people being harvested by machines and turned into bales of fertilizer.” Via Microsoft CoPilot | Designer. This post is for the benefit of anyone wondering about, researching, or going into busine …›

Source→ How to tell good LGBTQ+ stories with bad data

2024-02-20 By Jasmine Mithani, Kae Petrin (Image by macrovector on Freepik) Data on LGBTQ+ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to relying on. At the end of the day, though, doing g …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Design at the Speed of News

2024-02-14 Our design colleagues, Jay Guillermo and Chen Wu spoke at Figma’s annual Config Conference in San Francisco and shared what’s it like designing the home and live story pages for The New York Times.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Jay Guillermo …›

Source→ By what metric?

2024-02-06 By Nausheen Husain, Dhrumil Mehta, Aarushi Sahejpal Lots of folks in the data journalism community teach, but not many have formal training in how to teach. (Erik Westra photo) “Where did you learn to teach?” This is the question that …›

Source→ Advice for sharing security advice

2023-11-28 By Martin Shelton (Image from WOCinTech Chat) Writing and sharing security guidance ain’t easy. Without a light touch you can scare or overwhelm your audience. The advice often ages quickly, so you need a plan to help ensure it continue …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Estimation Isn’t for Everyone

2023-06-13 The Evolution of Agility in Software DevelopmentIllustration by An ChenBy John Nevins and Eric ChimaAs an engineering manager, I once led a traditional Scrum team, living the mainstream Agile culture. We spent hours defining, refining, and estimating …›

Source→ How newsrooms pay journalist-coders today

2023-04-19 By Dilcia Mercedes SRCCON attendees come together every year to talk about roles, careers, and salaries—we hope this latest data feeds into a new round of conversations like this one, which is part of what kicked off this survey. (Staff ph …›