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News outlets and social media provide an avalanche of information during a crisis
How do you sift out the accurate from the inaccurate?
Why newsrooms should invest in animation
Animation adds new opportunities for engaging different audiences, and that could help your bottom line.
Here’s everything we learned about source diversity auditing
Two years ago, Chalkbeat joined a growing list of newsrooms attempting to track the diversity of our sources so we could better understand whose perspectives we’re elevating in our journalism.
New initiative aims to help journalists address the ‘unpublishing’ dilemma
Unpublishingthenews.com debuts with policy repository, newsroom resources and new research about the public’s expectations of American newsrooms that unpublish.
Launching a newsletter and thinking about analytics
It’s not just about clicks When we launched our obits newsletter, How They Lived, on December 8, I had one big concern: Would anyone read it? Honestly, I worry about that with everything I publish, but launching a new product so close to the holidays only amped up that worry. The beauty of making journalism … Continued
A streamlined unpublishing process is as important as thoughtful policy
An official request process and tracking form are vital — and we want to build you one.If I asked you to give me the basics of your last five unpublishing requests, could you do it? What about the last 10? Twenty? Fifty? Do you have any history about the requests that were received by the … Continued
RJI, Electronic Frontier Foundation to help journalists ‘decipher’ data privacy for consumers
The issue of data privacy became an even more urgent issue to understand and talk about when people’s school, work and social lives turned to the internet even more during the pandemic. Unfortunately, it can be complex for journalists and consumers to understand and fully understand the impact when data is collected or shared. To … Continued
Why local journalism needs a funding pipeline
Tech and philanthropic institutions are giving thousands of $5,000 to $250,000 grants to individual newsrooms, but… then what?
RJI Fellowship to help newsrooms handle unpublishing requests ethically and practically
Fellow pursued doctorate in pledge to help news organizations, including one she once worked for, tackle issues related to unpublishing
This algorithm is a photo editor for 2 decades of archived pictures
Edward McCain and Sean Goggins have an idea to implement a software assistant to create a set of filters that could identify images that won’t ever get used from those most likely to be published.