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 ...

The map allows readers to swipe and see population density change over time. To accompany the story we wanted to make a map showing the Great Migration itself. We also decided early on that it would ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within the diversity represented by the sample, a typical Leaver profile emerged. (Illustration by William Lager) For the first time in 50 years, Black and other journalists of color (JOC) are waging ...

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, ...

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Wildfires have been at the forefront of our newsroom’s mind this year, as they have been for pretty much any California news outlet. In October, we opened up an audience survey about our wildfire ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 build news apps, crunch data, design interactive features, or otherwise do things with code in a news organization, we want to help document, support, and amplify your work. The easiest way to ...