Tag: Github
Testing tools to promote better collaboration in editorial budgets
How Notion, Coda and Google Tables (beta) stacked up.
Empowering local newsrooms with comprehensive community dashboards
Han Vu is a 2023 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with the American Press Institute in Washington, DC. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work through Innovation in Focus. Data holds great power for newsrooms to better understand their communities, but accessing and understanding it can be daunting. To aid local journalists … Continued
Build a news app to track local real estate development, with and for your readers
The Local Development Tracker Toolkit helps small newsrooms build a tool that serves their communities.
A Girl Scout patch: Exploring and building trust in journalism
Sarah Roelke, a 13 year old Girl Scout, built the Report It! patch program which follows a series of activities highlighting women in journalism, their accomplishments and exercises to demystify the profession.
How to produce and measure impact on your journalism
It is about tracking a wide variety of aspects from story pitch to execution to promotion, to make sure your stories can affect the communities they’re created in service to.
Transparency tools can make your reporting more credible
News and tech organizations grapple with the challenge of helping news consumers distinguish trustworthy sources.
Here’s how we’re putting together the pieces for Detroit development tracker
For the last six months, Detour Detroit has worked to build the Detroit Development Tracker, a tool that will allow the public to monitor large property development, see changes in their neighborhoods and get more engaged with the development process.
Building interactive visual experiences from data
How we helped the Current analyze and visualize public salary data.
Building simple data pipelines
Optimizing content limits on a user-by-user basis.
How to build data capacity in your newsroom
Introducing DUG, our beta data unit guide Forget the gist of the photo up there—the one reading “data has a better idea.” I don’t buy it. (Lovely photo though, no?) Data rarely has a better idea, because data doesn’t think. People think. Sometimes data can help people think a little better. The problem is that … Continued