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Meet our New OpenNews Fellow
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews announced five new fellows for 2014 today at the Mozilla Festival in London.We’re excited to announce that Brian Jacobs will be ProPublica’s OpenNews fellow in 2014.Brian is an...
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Data-Driven Journalism’s Secrets
Lea este artículo en español.I’ve spent the last few weeks in the U.S. on a Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship with the International Center for Journalists, talking to some American newsrooms about...
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How We Analyzed FEMA’s Risk Maps
Today we published a story and interactive news application revealing why the flood risk maps in effect across New York and New Jersey predicted Sandy’s flooding so inaccurately. Instead of the latest...
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How We Calculated Injury Rates for Temp and Non-Temp Workers
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Calculating ‘The Price of an Internship’
Today we launched an interactive news application called “The Price of an Internship.” We hope it will become a comprehensive source for data on internship programs at American universities, built by...
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How We Made the 3-D New York City Flood Map
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How to Send Us Files More Securely
Today we’re launching a new system to help sources send us messages and files more securely than they can via things like email and FTP. You can read more about the system at our secure information...
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How to Make a News App in Two Days, as Told by Six People Who Tried It for...
This post was co-published with Source.As part of the orientation week for the 2014 class of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellows, fellow nerd-cuber Mike Tigas and I led a hackathon at Mozilla’s...
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How to Start Learning to Program
A journalist I follow on Twitter recently asked me the best way to start to learn how to program. It’s a question I get asked a lot and, although it has been said before, here’s my advice for learning...
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A Conceptual Model for Interactive Databases in News
On Sunday, March 2, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, the Newseum and Pop Up Archive hosted a one-day conference focused on solving a fairly new problem: How to preserve the new breed of complex interactive...
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What Heartbleed Means for Newsrooms
This post was co-published with Source.Heartbleed is a security vulnerability that affects recent versions of OpenSSL, a popular software library that provides encryption. It is used in a wide variety...
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Introducing Landline and Stateline: Two Tools For Quick Vector Maps in your...
This post was co-published with Source.Today we're releasing code to make it easier for newsrooms to produce maps quickly. Landline is an open source JavaScript library for turning GeoJSON data into...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants
#twitter-widget-2 { margin: 0 auto !important; }National Geographic's Future of Food Hackathon took place last weekend in Washington, D.C., as a part of their “Future of Food” project. ProPublica’s...
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ProPublica News Applications Desk Receives Data Journalism Award
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The Road to Health is Paved With Good Data
I think I'm a decent arbiter of people's appreciation of data. I worked at IRE's data library as a grad student and I've attended four consecutive NICAR conferences. At ProPublica, I work with complex...
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Why We Removed the Form 990 PDFs From Nonprofit Explorer
Late last month, we removed links to download Form 990 document PDFs from our Nonprofit Explorer interactive database. These files had been hosted by Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit organization...
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Announcing Raster Support for Simple Tiles
At ProPublica, we love maps. For the last few years we've been creating maps for projects like our investigations into gerrymandering and FEMA's emergency maps. We've even dipped our toes into WebGL...
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A Big Article About Wee Things
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How to Ask Programming Questions
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Reporting From the Youngest Land in the World
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