Starting the monthly practice of collecting and visualizing my own data — something that no one was expected to see or read except me — helped me overcome some of that apprehension. I’m now more open ...

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 ...

If you came home from Minneapolis and couldn’t stop talking about NICAR25, you’re not alone. We attended the national data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors and got ...

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 ...

Data about LGBTQ+ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and questions seeking to understand those communities. But between spotty ...

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’ ...

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 continues to make ...

A big part of product management, and career growth too, is figuring out how all the pieces fit together. (Photo by Vlad Hilitanu on Unsplash) This year has been my first as a product manager in a ...

At PublicSource, we’re all about delving into the heart of stories, exposing truths and championing accountability. We cover everything from local government to health, the environment and education, ...

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 ...

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.

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 ...