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 ...

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’ ...

Erica Ryan is the project manager for the Duke Reporters’ Lab, where she works on tools and resources to expand the reach of fact-checking and help fact-checkers do their work. She has previously ...

Writing and sharing security guidance ain’t easy. Without a light touch you can scare or overwhelm your audience. The advice often ages quickly, so you need a plan to help ensure it continues to make ...

At PublicSource, we’re all about delving into the heart of stories, exposing truths and championing accountability. We cover everything from local government to health, the environment and education, ...

Participants in the Data Lens hackathon at Ulaanbaatar’s Innovation Center came together last month to explore data about air pollution, traffic, and public transportation. (Photo by Delgerzaya ...

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 ...

Siri Carpenter is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook. She is the editor of the book, The Craft of Science Writing. She is also an award-winning science journalist and editor whose ...

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 ...