Beginning an audience engagement effort can be intimidating. How do you decide who you want to reach? How will you justify putting your resources into this project? How can you be sure you’re ...

There are a lot of great resources available for people at all levels of employment who want to become better allies. This guide is meant to collect some of those resources and share examples specific ...

Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in ...

Source is an OpenNews project designed to amplify the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it.

For journalists wanting to make their work accessible to people with disabilities, alt text is a great place to start. This short guide can help you think about how to add helpful alt text to images, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...

Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

Testify, from The Marshall Project, is a great example of “generative journalism”: The team analyzed tens of thousands of court records, and was able to use the resulting data to tell many different ...

If you’re like me, your personal geography of your city is based mostly on its streets, but you’ve never really given their names a second thought. A few months ago, I realized that those street names ...

At Spirited Media, I coordinated the launch and execution of membership programs for Billy Penn, Denverite and The Incline. We learned a lot, fast, and built a suite of tools to help us measure ...