Touring KCAW, Sitka Alaska’s Raven Radio

For most people living outside Alaska, if they’ve heard of Sitka it’s because they’ve been on a cruise ship that stopped there. This small city of just under 9,000 people in the Southeast of the state, near the capital of Junea…

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ “Your Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and Other Advice for Data Journalists From Hadley Wickham

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ New: You Can Now Search the Full Text of 3 Million Nonprofit Tax Records for Free

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 …›

INN Labs→ New Plugin Launch: Republication Tracker Tool

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 …›

INN Labs→ Announcing Version 1.0 of the Link Roundups Plugin

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ The Ticket Trap: Front to Back

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Want to Start a Collaborative Journalism Project? We’re Building Tools to Help.

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Chasing Leads and Herding Cats: Shaping a New Role in the Newsroom

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, …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ New Partnership Will Help Us Hold Facebook and Campaigns Accountable

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ The Election DataBot: Now Even Easier

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Shedding Some Light on Dark Money Political Donors

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 …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Download Chicago’s Parking Ticket Data Yourself

2018-08-23 by Katlyn Alo and Melissa Sanchez ProPublica Illinois has been reporting all year on how ticketing in Chicago is pushing tens of thousands of drivers into debt and hitting …›

The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day

2018-07-10 by David Eads I avoided using GNU Make in my data journalism work for a long time, partly because the documentation was so obtuse that I couldn’t see how Make, one of man …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: June 19 Edition

2018-06-19 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: June 12 Edition

2018-06-12 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: June 5 Edition

2018-06-05 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 29 Edition

2018-05-29 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 22 Edition

2018-05-22 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 15 Edition

2018-05-15 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 10 Edition

2018-05-10 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ DigitalEd Panel: The Value Of Attention: Metrics, Methods and Outcomes

2018-05-02 Panel Title: The Value Of Attention: Metrics, Methods and Outcomes Moderator: Jason Alcorn, MediaShift Panelists: Clare Carr, Parse.ly; Evan Mackinder, Slate The difference between building a loyal audience and getting lost in the noise online? Measu …›

MediaShift→ Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 1 Edition

2018-05-01 Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re …›

MediaShift→ MediaShift to Change Focus to Trainings, Events, Studio

2018-04-09 Ch-ch-changes are coming to MediaShift, the publication I started more than 12 years ago as part of PBS. Starting today, the business will focus exclusively on our online trainings, including panels and peer group trainings, events like our private rou …›

Technology360→ Weekly readings for #pubmedia, 5 Mar 2018and, a change in direction

2018-03-05 Hello friends – I’ve had this blog since 2003, but for the past three years it has been largely used to share links of interest to the public media community that I’d posted to my @haarsager Twitter feed.  This link sharing actually dates from 1 …›

Technology360→ Weekend readings for #pubmedia, Feb. 24, 2018

2018-02-24 Here’s another collection (a bit slimmer than usual for some reason) of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  --Dennis ATSC 3.0/HbbTV HPA panel examines road to ATSC 3.0 and repack.  TVTechnology Cable/Satellite/MVPD/Cord-Cutting …›

Technology360→ Weekly readings for #pubmedia, Feb. 19, 2018

2018-02-19 Got 5 inches of snow overnight Sat./Sun., but the temperature could reach 70° on Wednesday.  We live in hope.  Here is a compilation of recent selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  --Dennis Broadband/Wireless Why broadband competition …›

Technology360→ Weekend readings for #pubmedia, Feb. 9, 2018

2018-02-09 Here is the latest compilation of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  --Dennis ATSC 3.0/Next-Gen TV/HbbTV ATSC 3.0 rollout can begin in March.  TVTechnology Digital Video/OTT/VOD 5% of U.S. broadband users subscribe to a vMVPD …›

Technology360→ Weekend readings for #pubmedia, Jan. 26, 2018

2018-01-26 Just became unburied from a lengthy writing project, so took a pass on doing this last weekend.  So this collection of links from http://www.twitter.com/haarsager covers the past couple of weeks.  --Dennis ATSC 3.0/Next-Gen TV/HbbTV ATSC 3.0: Br …›

Technology360→ Weekend readings for #pubmedia, Jan. 14, 2018

2018-01-14 Here is this week’s compilation of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  CES is responsible for a few entries.  --Dennis ATSC 3.0/Next-Gen TV/HbbTV Hands-on with 3.0 OTA TV at CES.  Cord Cutters News ATSC 3.0 standard approved, …›

Technology360→ This weeks readings for #pubmedia, 8 Jan. 2018

2018-01-08 First compilation of the new year: This week’s selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  --Dennis ATSC 3.0/Next-Gen TV/HbbTV Sony, Pearl TV partner for ATSC 3.0 next-gen TV program guide.  FierceCable On tap for TV at CES: 3.0, voice …›

Tow Center→ Research Director Jonathan Albright on Russian Ad Networks

2017-10-10 This week, Research Director Jonathan Albright has published a number of articles on research about Russian ad networks and their influence during the 2016 election. Look at Jonathan’s dataset, and follow him on Medium, for more. Research The Was …›

Tow Center→ Journalism Educator’s Symposium 2017

2017-08-09 The Tow Center is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, September 19th, we will be hosting our Journalism Educator’s Symposium – an event designed to help build a community of interest and exchange around new approaches and best practices to …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Fall 2017!)

2017-06-29 Photo by Rachael Ketterer This is not your standard photo internship! This internship is an opportunity to learn more about the world of photo editing. Our goal isn’t to make you into a photo editor; we view this internship as a chance for you to u …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our design/code/??? intern for fall 2017!

2017-06-29 Are you data-curious, internet savvy, and interested in journalism? Do you draw, design, or write code? We are looking for you. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, programmers who are learning about journalism, designers who love data gr …›

Tow Center→ Artificial Intelligence: Practice and Implications for Journalism

2017-06-07 We have witnessed the first wave of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism in the form of chatbots, automated story generation, and machine learning techniques applied to news. The big tech companies have pushed AI to the center of their product st …›

PRX→ We’ve Moved!

2017-05-22 We have officially moved our blog presence over to Medium.  Follow us there to get all the latest news about PRX, the Podcast Garage, Radiotopia and much more.  See you there! The post We’ve Moved! appeared first on PRX. …›

Tow Center→ Tow Center Announces Research Director and 2017 Fellows

2017-05-22 Jonathan Albright Joins Tow Center for Digital Journalism as Research Director The Tow Center is pleased to announce Dr. Jonathan Albright as its new Research Director. Jonathan’s research around networks of propaganda and misinformation has recentl …›

Tow Center→ Symposium: Next Gen Podcast Distribution Protocols

2017-04-14 MAY 11, 2017, 9am–5pm Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA Next Gen Podcast Distribution Protocols: Innovation and governance in open development initiatives Presented by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &a …›

PRX→ Five Local Podcasts to Try for #TryPod

2017-03-23 We’re big fans of the simple idea behind the #TryPod campaign: share a podcast you love with someone you love. At PRX, we work with talented indie producers all over the world, but this month we want to share five podcasts made in our own Boston bac …›