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 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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Local’s months-long investigation of Toronto’s Vision Zero road-safety program grew out of a plan to analyze speeding in school zones across the city. What we found was significant inequity in the ...

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 ...

Katie L. Burke is an award-winning editor and science writer. As digital features editor at American Scientist, she shares the wonder of science and helps scientists tell their stories. She also ...

In my role as DBEI Director at Investigative Reporters & Editors, white members and partners earnestly and frequently ask me how they can better engage with people of color, usually because they want ...

This article was written and originally published by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Olivia Martin and Martin Shelton, both of FPF, and reporter Jessica Bruder led a session at SRCCON 2022 about ...