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 ...

Establishing a peer support network or becoming a peer supporter is not as complicated as it may sound, according to a panel of experts at this year’s Mental Health Journalism Summit.

If you came home from Minneapolis and couldn’t stop talking about NICAR25, you’re not alone. We attended the national data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors and got ...

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In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ ...

Aarushi Sahejpal is a data scientist and journalist exploring inequality and accountability. He is a professor of quantitative methods and data journalism at American University’s School of ...

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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 ...

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.

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 ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is based on this presentation for NACIS 2022. My name is Aaron, I am a freelance journalist who specializes in interactive, map-based storytelling. My work typically ...