PRX→ Announcing the Project Catapult Cohort!

2016-12-21 PRX is excited to announce the first cohort of Project Catapult, an innovative podcast training project for public media stations, made possible by a $1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The project initially intended …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How We Cleaned Up And Ranked Our Listeners’ Favorite Albums of 2016

2016-12-16 All Songs Considered asks listeners for their favorite albums of 2016 At the beginning of December 2016, All Songs Considered followed a nice tradition and asked listeners for their favorite albums of 2016. Users could enter up to five different album …›

PRX→ PRX Remix Picks: Dreams Deceived, Deferred, Fulfilled

2016-12-15 This month, I’m featuring stories about dreams: the tale of a woman who dreams of a bigger apartment, the consequences of a jail system that puts dreams on hold, and a mother-daughter team helping each other to fulfill lifelong ambitions. Time to “ …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Mercy Street Season 2 Digital Content

2016-12-12 Season 2 of Mercy Street premieres January 22 and to help you with promotion, below is an overview of some of the digital support you’ll see in the coming weeks:WebsiteContinuing to build on the dynamic Mercy Street website from last season, the …›

PRX→ Radiotopia Fall Fundraiser 2016: We Did it Again!

2016-12-02 We recently wrapped up our Radiotopia 2016 fall fundraiser, and were blown away by the love and support from our fans, both old and new. With every drive, we gain new and important insights into the podcast fundraising universe and our dedicated fanbas …›

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

2016-10-12 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 winter/spring 2017!

2016-10-12 Map by Visuals Team intern Brittany Mayes 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 a …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Pym.js v1.0.0 release – what do you need to know

2016-08-30 The NPR Visuals Team happy to announce the release of Pym.js v1.0.0. We want to share with all of you the goals that we hope to achieve with it and the design process that led us to the new release. But wait, what is Pym.js for? Pym.js embeds and res …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How we built a VR project using web technologies

2016-07-22 A screenshot of Standing At The Edge Of Geologic Time in virtual reality. Last Wednesday, the NPR Visuals Team published a virtual reality story about the geologic history of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was weird! Making a virtual reality projec …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Useful Scraping Techniques

2016-06-17 A recent NPR project that collects structured data about gun sale listings from Armslist.com demonstrates several of my favorite tricks for writing simple, fast scrapers with Python. The code for the Armslist scraper is available on Github. Can you s …›

NPR Storytelling→ We love this Tumblr but…

2016-05-26 …we haven’t updated it in a while. We feel bad about that. It’s because we’ve been focusing on building oodles of storytelling resources over at NPR’s Editorial Training website.So this Tumblr is on vacation. But there’s still lots of …›

NPR visuals team blog→ A Better Way To Track Listening

2016-05-17 .entry section img { margin-bottom: 0; } A screenshot of our elections app titlecard during Mega Tuesday on March 15, 2016. For the entirety of the primary season, we have been running our elections app at elections.npr.org, focusi …›

MediaShift » Idea Lab→ How Libraries Are Curating Current Events, Becoming Community Debate Hubs

2016-05-03 This piece is part of a special series on Libraries + Media. Click here for the whole series. When the Pew Research Center tracks where Americans get their news, we hear about Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, television, newspapers and radio. Libraries d …›

MediaShift » Idea Lab→ Makers Gonna Make, Innovators Gonna Innovate at WVU’s Women’s IoT Makeathon

2016-04-29 The following is coverage from West Virginia University of a recent ‘Hack the Gender Gap’ event, which MediaShift co-hosted with the Reed School of Media. See more coverage here. Makers are going to make, so why not gather them in the same place to …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Why should I Carebot? (Published At The Carebot Blog (thecarebot.github.io))

2016-04-29 Because what gets measured gets done. …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Fall 2016!)

2016-04-08 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 2016!

2016-04-08 Illustration by viz team intern Annette Elizabeth Allen! Hey! You! With the weird talent! We have two internships on the Visuals team. One is for photo editing, the other, well, it’s weird. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, …›

MediaShift » Idea Lab→ How Virtual Reality Will Revolutionize Multiple Industries

2016-04-05 A version of this piece first appeared on Medium from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Goldman Sachs VR/AR software market assumptions for year 2025 Virtual and augmented reality isn’ …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Lunchbox Update: We’re Dropping Support For Electron

2016-03-21 Last year, NPR Visuals sent a team to OpenNews’s Portland Code Convening to create Lunchbox, a suite of newsroom tools that make images for social media sharing, and make it easily deployable for newsrooms. We decided to experiment with a new w …›

Idea Lab→ Can We Save Journalism?

2016-03-02 This piece first appeared on Medium from the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Whatever happens next, I am always going to blame Hunter Page and his damn fool questions for starting me off on this journey. Hunter: “Pete, ho …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Reporter/Project Coordinator, Great Lakes Regional Journalism Collaborative

2016-02-24 Position Summary WNED | WBFO, Buffalo, is seeking an experienced journalist to serve as a reporter and project coordinator for the Great Lakes Regional Journalism Collaboration. The position will spend 50% time on each of the two activities and report …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Multimedia Journalist/Reporter

2016-02-24 WOUB is accepting applications for a Multimedia Journalist/Reporter. This position produces high quality broadcast pieces for radio, TV and online focused on topics related to the areas surrounding the Ohio River. Must be able to mine for stories and c …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Director of Development

2016-02-24 Director of Development – KRWG at New Mexico State University seeks an experienced fundraising leader that will plan, develop, implement, and manage marketing/fundraising activities including philanthropic initiatives, (Planned Giving & Major Gif …›

NPR Storytelling→ Does anything HAPPEN in your story?In public radio, we cover a…

2016-01-12 Does anything HAPPEN in your story?In public radio, we cover a lot of policy issues affecting LOTS of people. These are hard stories to tell. We gather hours of tape with policymakers and people affected by policies – but it’s challenging to turn t …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our design/code/??? intern for summer 2016!

2015-12-16 Illustration by viz team intern Annette Elizabeth Allen! Hey! You! With the weird talent! We have two internships on the Visuals team. One is for photo editing, the other, well, it’s weird. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Summer 2016!)

2015-12-14 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→ We’re looking for a developer to help us build Carebot

2015-12-14 We’re looking for a programmer to join our team for a few months. Your mission? Break the news’s addiction to pageviews, by bringing meaningful analytics to journalists. Why? At NPR Visuals, our goal is to make people care. To get them …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Introducing Elex, A Tool To Make Election Coverage Better For Everyone (Published At Source (source.opennews.org))

2015-12-10 This new collaboration from the New York Times and NPR needs your help …›

NPR Storytelling→ Gut check: How to capture the emotion of a moment

2015-12-07 What do you do after finishing a bunch of interviews in the field? You double check your recorder… Was I actually rolling? Phew!… You record a bunch more ambience… The producers will always ask me for more… What else?NPR’ …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ Tow Report Details the Power and Promise of Crowdsourcing

2015-11-25 Posted To: Ideas & Innovation > Blogically ThinkingPosted To: Ideas & Innovation > Articles First published Nov. 23, 2015 on Mediashift.org. Jan Schaffer co-authored this report with Mimi Onuoha, a Fulbright-National Geograph …›

NPR Storytelling→ “The soufflé collapses” and other writing that surprises

2015-11-23 The man in this photo is Ilya Marritz. He is NOT a football player. He’s the host of WNYC’s podcast “The Season,” which ends its season this week. Ilya has been narrating, in serialized form, the story of the underdog Columbia football team.* …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Do Visual Stories Make People Care?

2015-11-19 Since we published Borderland in April of 2014, the NPR Visuals Team has been iterating on a style of storytelling we call “sequential visual stories.” They integrate photography, text, and sometimes audio, video or illustration into a slid …›

NPR visuals team blog→ We’re hiring a developer!

2015-11-06 Love to code? Want to use your skills to make the world a better place? We’re a crew of visual journalists (developers, designers, photojournalists…lots of things) in the newsroom at NPR headquarters in sunny Washington, DC. We make ch …›

NPR Storytelling→ Introducing training.npr.org

2015-11-02 Today we’re very excited to unveil a new site – training.npr.org.We created it for the many journalists working in public media. Sometimes it can feel impossible to find the time and space to hone your storytelling techniques, learn something n …›

NPR Storytelling→ Do you even Snapchat, bro?

2015-10-30 NPR’s social media intern Vesta Partovi has taken our Snapchat/Periscope game to a new level with this custom iPhone rig (dubbed “Wombat”). She put it together with the help of two NPR engineers and photographer John Poole. She writes: The idea …›

NPR visuals team blog→ The Pympocalypse

2015-10-30 Everything was going so well. We finally had a solution for embedding responsive charts inside our CMS. We called it pym.js. We had built a framework around it, the dailygraphics rig, and when that worked for us we shared it with the world. It even wor …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Introducing agate: a Better Data Analysis Library for Journalists (Published At Source (source.opennews.org))

2015-10-27 agate, a Python library optimized for humans, reaches 1.0 …›

NPR Storytelling→ Audio people! Don’t forget to tell stories about soundSometimes,…

2015-10-21 Audio people! Don’t forget to tell stories about soundSometimes, it’s helpful to offer reminders of the obvious: Radio/audio is a really good medium for stories about sound.This segment from All Things Considered last week, especially its intro*, i …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Parsing complex social study data

2015-10-20 NPR’s #15girls project looks at the lives of 15 year old girls around the world. The reporting team was interested in using data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to help inform the reporting and produce a “by-the-numbers” piece. An …›