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Pair Programming Participant #2: Ricardo Brom
The second participant in ProPublica's Pair Programming Project (also known as P5) is Ricardo Brom from La Nación in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Ricardo works with La Nación's excellent data journalism...
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Anatomy of a News Map
This post was co-published with Mozilla-OpenNews's Source, who have also published an interview with Jeff Larson.A little over a month ago, Al Shaw and I made an interactive map of the “Great...
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Why (and How) We Use Creative Commons for Our Stories
This piece was commissioned by Nieman Lab for the tenth anniversary of Creative Commons, and was published initially by them.Happy birthday, Creative Commons.ProPublica has made important use of...
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Use Our Nursing Home Inspect Widget on Your Site
As part of ProPublica’s “Nursing Homes” series and interactive news application, we've created a small widget that you can embed on your web site. It lets users search thousands of nursing home...
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New Year’s Resolution: Learn to Code
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How To Edit 52,000 Stories at Once
Today we're launching an update to our Opportunity Gap news application, with two new data points, better design on smartphones and integration with the Foursquare social network.Also launching with...
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A New Way to ‘Check In’ on Education Inequality
Starting today if you connect your Foursquare account to "The Opportunity Gap," we'll send you stats about schools whenever you check into one. If you've checked into a school we've associated with a...
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RIP EveryBlock
.content-left, .sidebar-inject {display:none !important;}With the closing of EveryBlock yesterday, both of the main reasons I started working in News Applications have disappeared from the internet....
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ProPublica’s News Apps and Data Guides
Today we're publishing a series of guides that we hope will be useful for news app teams everywhere: A News App style guide, a high-level design overview, a coding manifesto, our standard social tags...
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Other Ways to Serve an App
Peggy Bustamante is a news app developer with Digital First Media’s Data Team, and was the P5 Resident at ProPublica in January. She spent her time working with ProPublica News App Editor Scott Klein...
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Our News App Tech
As newsrooms incorporate news application teams, one of the first questions they have to answer for themselves is what technologies to choose, and how to set up developer and web hosting environments...
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Casey Thomas, P5 Resident
The fourth P5 Resident started a project in the ProPublica offices today. He’s Casey Thomas from AxisPhilly.AxisPhilly is a non-profit news startup in Philadelphia. Their mission is to “educate and...
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Outsider CAR: Quick Thoughts on Malofiej 21 Day 1
Today was the first day of the Malofiej World Infographic Summit in Pamplona, Spain. It’s a very small (the whole attendee list fits on two double sided sheets of paper) two day one-track conference....
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Between Human and Machine: Thoughts on Malofiej 21 Day 2
This is the second of two posts about the 21st Malofiej World Infographic Summit. Read the first here.In one of the final sessions of the 21st Malofiej World Infographic Summit on Friday in Pamplona,...
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ProPublica Honored with Best Map, Two Medals at Malofiej 21
On Friday, the Spanish chapter of the Society of News Design (SNDE) announced the winners of the 21st Malofiej International Infographics Awards. The jury evaluated over 1,000 entries from 28...
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No Windows. One Exit. Free Drinks: Casino-Driven Design for Crowdsourcing
.article .article-inline-image img { width:630px; max-width:630px; border:1px solid #cecece; }During the 2012 election, we created Free the Files, an interactive news application based on crowdsourced...
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Heart of Nerd Darkness: Why Updating Dollars for Docs Was so Difficult
Last week we published a big update to Dollars for Docs, our interactive news application of payments made to U.S. health-care providers by 15 pharmaceutical companies. Compared to when we launched the...
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Meet the New Blog (Same as the Old Blog)
Today we debut a ProPublica Nerd Blog redesign, which includes a new look for our main landing page as well as our article pages. We wanted to create both a better reading experience, as well as to...
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HeartSaver: Experimenting with News Games to Tell a Story
.gist .gist-file .gist-data { font-size: 12px !important; } .bodytext ol { margin: 0 20px 0 20px !important; }This past weekend, a team from ProPublica competed in the GEN Editors’ Lab New York hack...
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ProPublica Projects—and P5 Projects—Finalists for Data Journalism Awards
Over the weekend, the Global Editors Network announced finalists for its 2013 Data Journalism Awards. On the shortlist are three projects from ProPublica: Maps that retell the “Great Migration” that...
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