Features
Project Introducing Tabula
- By Manuel Aristarán, Mike Tigas
- Manuel Aristarán, Jeremy B. Merrill, Mike Tigas
- OpenNews, ProPublica
A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 1
- By Erika Owens
Applications open this week for Code with me: Portland. Plus, National Conference for Media Reform this weekend.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 25
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meetups in Rochester, Berlin, and Boston this week. Plus, today is the last day to apply for Grants for Innovation in Development Reporting.
Roundup Apps + Code + Viz Roundup, March 21
- By Erin Kissane
It’s been a fruitful couple of weeks for news apps and people writing about them: this roundup brings a sturdy batch of new features and tools and about twice as many write-ups as usual.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 18
- By Erika Owens
The Knight News Challenge deadline is today Tuesday at 5pm Eastern Daylight Time. (Due to technical difficulties, the deadline has been extended one day.)
Project Under the Hood of the Open Gender Tracker
- By Erin Kissane, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
- Adam Hyland, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
- Bocoup, MIT Center for Civic Media
Open Gender Tracker is an open source deployable content analysis service funded by a Knight Foundation Prototype grant. We spoke with its creators about the project’s origins, technical specifications, and possible future in and near newsrooms.
Community Update Welcome to OpenNews Learning on Source
Today, we launched OpenNews Learning, a brand-new kind of awesomeness hosted here on Source. We’re opening with three crunchy case studies from three heavy hitters.
Roundup Event Roundup, March 11
- By Erika Owens
One week left to think of your entry for the Knight News Challenge. Plus, lots of Hacks/Hackers meetups worldwide.
Interview Meet Mariano Blejman
In the third of our Knight International Journalism Fellow profiles, Mariano Blejman talks about his upcoming projects.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 4
- By Erika Owens
Conference season is gearing up: Last week NICAR, this week SXSW Interactive.
Tool ProPublica’s News Apps Guides
Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.
Interview Meet Gustavo Faleiros
The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Interview Meet Mariana Santos
The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 25
- By Erika Owens
This week, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference hits Louisville, Kentucky.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 19
- By Erika Owens
Saturday is International Open Data Day, and there may be a hack event near year.
Interview For Journalism: How it Started, Where it’s Going
- By Erin Kissane, Dave Stanton
- Jeremy Bowers, Chase Davis, Christopher Groskopf, Jeff Larson, Jacqui Maher, Michelle Minkoff, Ryan Pitts, Ken Schwencke, Dave Stanton, Mike Tigas
The For Journalism project aims to create nine brand-new courses for journalists who want to learn how to design and build news applications, and to offer them to individuals and institutions in the fall of 2013.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 11
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meet this week in Milano and Birmingham. Plus, two news-related iconathons this month.
Roundup Why EveryBlock Mattered to Us
- By Erin Kissane
Yesterday morning, EveryBlock announced its sudden closure by its parent company, NBC. The news developer and civic code worlds reacted with intense sadness and a recognition of the advances made possible by EveryBlock and its founders.
Roundtable A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts
Sha Hwang and I brought together a panel of four experts—Rachel Binx, Mike Bostock, Tom Carden, and Scott Murray—to talk about their processes last month at San Francisco’s General Assembly. Here’s what we learned.
Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup, February 7th
- By Erin Kissane
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen new apps, new map releases, and plenty of community projects and conversations. In the US, the NICAR convention is around the corner (see Chrys Wu’s preparatory write-up). Also, just about everyone got hacked.