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2026 12

  1. We asked a whole journalism conference what it wanted, out loud
  2. Patrick Boehler
  3. What journalist-parents ask for, and what they don't
  4. Tasmiha Khan
  5. Creating a Public AI Policy for Your Newsroom
  6. Emma Gometz
  7. Data by hand: Analog datavis & self-reflection
  8. Emilia Ruzicka
  9. We asked where journalism gatherings go wrong: Here’s what we heard
  10. Our gatherings could be so much better
  11. Journalism lost its culture of sharing
  12. Scott Klein

2025 4

  1. What does peer support in journalism look like: Insights from U.S. and international experts
  2. Naseem Miller
  3. Seven takeaways from NICAR25
  4. Emilie Munson

2024 13

  1. Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development
  2. Madison Karas
  3. Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found
  4. Sanjin Ibrahimovic
  5. How to tell good LGBTQ+ stories with bad data
  6. 7 tips for data-driven journalism about LGBTQ+ communities
  7. Jasmine Mithani
  8. Fact-checking in 2024? Five tools to help with research and promotion
  9. Erica Ryan
  10. By what metric?
  11. Nausheen Husain
  12. Much of what made social media feel special to journalists is gone. What now?
  13. Aditi Mukund

2023 24

  1. How we used an FOI project to show the public the power they can wield
  2. Tom Cardoso
  3. Advice for sharing security advice
  4. Martin Shelton
  5. Covering trans issues well just means doing journalism well
  6. Kae Petrin
  7. Project Diary: How we made the Wage Theft Monitor
  8. Max Siegelbaum
  9. Halle Stockton
  10. Leon Yin
  11. Marnette Federis
  12. Dilcia Mercedes
  13. Delgerzaya Delgerjargal
  14. Michelle Faust Raghavan
  15. Mike Stucka
  16. P. Kim Bui
  17. Brandon Roberts
  18. Mago Torres
  19. Joanne Griffith
  20. Siri Carpenter
  21. Anastasia Valeeva
  22. Andrew Losowsky
  23. Amanda Zamora
  24. Inori Roy

2022 31

  1. Paul Cheung
  2. Ryan Pitts
  3. Marla Jones Newman
  4. Erika Owens
  5. Emma Carew Grovum
  6. Iris Lee
  7. Aaron Reiss
  8. Katie L. Burke
  9. Where to look for local stories about Census undercounts By Posted on August 25, 2022 A roundup of story angles plus data you can use to investigate the places you cover.
  10. Brent Jones
  11. Francisco Vara-Orta
  12. Kathy Lu
  13. Taking care with source security when reporting on abortion By Posted on July 19, 2022 Journalists covering reproductive rights are tackling a challenging—but critical—beat with fast-evolving digital security risks. Learning how to minimize these risks for both sources and oneself requires identifyi
  14. Alan Henry
  15. Rebecca Tippett
  16. Tyler Dukes
  17. Irving Washington
  18. Robert Hernandez
  19. Aditi Bhandari
  20. Holden Foreman
  21. Jahna Berry
  22. Annemarie Dooling
  23. Julia B. Chan
  24. Patrick Garvin
  25. Sisi Wei
  26. Greg Burton
  27. Feli Carrique
  28. John Davidow
  29. Hannah Wise
  30. Kyndell Harkness
  31. Members of the DEI Coalition

2021 21

  1. Caitlin Gilbert
  2. Vignesh Ramachandran
  3. Moiz Syed
  4. Thomas Wilburn
  5. Lindsay Abrams
  6. Bridget Thoreson
  7. News organizations: Here’s what your teams are trying to tell you about burnout By Posted on September 22, 2021 How leaders can #RethinkBurnout in journalism and create systems for organizational change
  8. Sophie Ho
  9. Angilee Shah
  10. Tony Elkins
  11. Charlie Johnson
  12. Benét J. Wilson
  13. Andrew Calderon
  14. Brian De Los Santos
  15. Michelle Baruchman
  16. Phoebe Gavin
  17. Rjaa Ahmed
  18. Giselle Kowalski
  19. Meagan Fleming
  20. Sara Simon
  21. Aaron Williams

2020 15

  1. Frank Sharpe
  2. Dana Amihere
  3. Carla Murphy
  4. Sarah Alvarez
  5. Brian Boyer
  6. Hannah Recht
  7. Irena Fischer-Hwang
  8. Jayme Fraser
  9. Sinduja Rangarajan
  10. Derek Willis
  11. Robin Kwong
  12. Erin Petenko
  13. Lindsay Muscato
  14. Brittany Hite
  15. Jennifer Mizgata

2019 30

  1. Things You Made: Last Roundup of 2019, Plus Community Thanks By Posted on December 20, 2019 Our regular biweekly roundup
  2. Sean Campbell
  3. Cirien Saadeh
  4. Lam Thuy Vo
  5. Amanda Hickman
  6. Katie Park
  7. Jacob Fenton
  8. Chris Alcantara
  9. Janelle O’Dea
  10. Joe Amditis
  11. Rachel Alexander
  12. Emily Goligoski
  13. Chase Davis
  14. Lisa Waananen Jones
  15. Patrick Judge
  16. Jessica Morrison
  17. Josh Rayman
  18. Anika Anand
  19. Haley Correll
  20. Tiff Fehr
  21. Brittany Mayes
  22. Matt Wynn
  23. Shira Stein
  24. Neil Bedi
  25. Pierre Conti
  26. Chris Hagan
  27. Ted Han
  28. Carla Astudillo
  29. Julia Wolfe
  30. Allison Lichter Joseph

2018 38

  1. Armand Emamdjomeh
  2. Ben Mullin
  3. Tyler Fisher
  4. Matt Dempsey
  5. Marshall Hopkins
  6. Alvin Chang
  7. Amy L. Kovac-Ashley
  8. Brian Jacobs
  9. David Blood
  10. Casey Miller
  11. Laura Laderman
  12. MaryJo Webster
  13. Amanda Hicks
  14. Yolanda Martinez
  15. Martín González
  16. Hannah Birch
  17. Jon McClure
  18. Leah Sottile
  19. Ryann Grochowski Jones
  20. David Eads
  21. Luke Hutton
  22. Ann Choi
  23. Christine Zhang
  24. Last Call for SRCCON 2018 By Posted on April 19, 2018 Our call for attendees closes Friday, April 20.
  25. Stephen Stirling
  26. Jim Briggs
  27. Andrew Briz
  28. Erin Kissane
  29. Eileen Webb
  30. Lauren Tierney
  31. Heather Bryant
  32. Kaeti Hinck
  33. Soo Oh
  34. Alberto Cairo
  35. Melody Kramer
  36. Erin Grau
  37. Rob Weychert
  38. Mar Cabra

2017 46

  1. David Rodriguez
  2. Adnan Aamir
  3. Hannah Cushman
  4. Sydette Harry
  5. Erin Brown
  6. Mandy Brown
  7. Holly Allen
  8. Lena Groeger
  9. Rachel Schallom
  10. Ryan Sholin
  11. Sara Konrad Baranowski
  12. Marie Connelly
  13. Anne Li
  14. Hamilton Boardman
  15. Mike Janssen
  16. Steven Rich
  17. Nicole Zhu
  18. Bonnie Berkowitz
  19. David Yanofsky
  20. Molly Schwartz
  21. Denise Lu
  22. Matt Dennewitz
  23. Gina Boysun
  24. Joe Germuska
  25. John Burn-Murdoch
  26. Dolly Li
  27. Stacy-Marie Ishmael
  28. Geoff Hing
  29. Kevin Schaul
  30. Stephen Lovell
  31. J.M. Porup
  32. Harlo Holmes
  33. Event Roundup, May 30 By Posted on May 30, 2017 Still time to think about your Online Journalism Award entries, plus a bunch of upcoming events.
  34. Jeremy B. Merrill
  35. Ariana Giorgi
  36. Michael Corey
  37. Dave Stanton
  38. Andrew Nguyen
  39. Kristin Hussey
  40. Stephanie Lamm
  41. Lo Bénichou
  42. Sandhya Kambhampati
  43. Dan Phiffer
  44. Kavya Sukumar
  45. Pietro Passarelli
  46. Matt Kiefer

2016 42

  1. Clarisa Diaz
  2. Lisa Charlotte Rost
  3. H. Charley Bodkin
  4. Dan Zajdband
  5. Event Roundup, Oct 24 By Posted on October 24, 2016 The Mozilla Festival is back this weekend. We’ll be in London and have coverage here on Source.
  6. Joel Eastwood
  7. Event Roundup, Oct 10 By Posted on October 10, 2016 Transparency Camp comes to Cleveland, BarCamp News Innovation is in Philly, and other upcoming events and deadlines.
  8. Jane Friedhoff
  9. Emily Chow
  10. Katie Jansen
  11. Stuart A. Thompson
  12. Aliza Aufrichtig
  13. Jonathan Stray
  14. Hello from SRCCON 2016 By Posted on July 28, 2016 Source is in Portland this week for SRCCON 2016. Here’s how you can follow along with us.
  15. Eli J. Murray
  16. Event Roundup, July 11 By Posted on July 11, 2016 Events this week in Buenos Aires, New York, and Toronto, plus ONA fellowships deadline.
  17. Gabriel Florit
  18. Joshua Hatch
  19. Event Roundup, June 13 By Posted on June 13, 2016 This week is the Allied Media Conference and Investigative Reporters and Editors, plus a bunch of local meetups.
  20. Darryl Holliday
  21. Allison McCartney
  22. David Sleight
  23. Source Project Roundup, May 13 By Posted on May 13, 2016 Here’s a few things we loved recently: arresting words, opposing parties, how landfills fill in Minnesota, how housing stays empty in China, and more.
  24. Samantha Sunne
  25. How We Made a Bot that Pours Wine on Television By Posted on April 29, 2016 How I built a WineBOT for NBC News’ Today show that’s powered by a hashtag battle.
  26. All Aboard the Twitterbot By Posted on April 28, 2016 The @choochoobot is a Twitter account that posts emoji trains sweeping through emoji landscapes. Here’s what it tells us about making bots these days.
  27. Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Bots By Posted on April 26, 2016 The Platte Basin Timelapse Project started in March 2011 with the goal of placing timelapse cameras throughout the basin and documenting time passing along one of Nebraska’s most important water resources. Now, they have more than 40 cameras
  28. Yian Shang
  29. Welcome to Botweek 2016 By Posted on April 25, 2016 Today kicks off the third annual Source Botweek, our yearly push to document the newsgathering bots, Slackbots, Twitter bots, and other automated creations that have emerged from newsrooms in the last year—and to check out a few extras from the mak
  30. Nicholas Diakopoulos
  31. Jennifer A. Stark
  32. Source Project Roundup, April 14 By Posted on April 14, 2016 Here’s a few things we loved recently: beautiful data, inspiring investigations, a boring winter, and six spoonfuls of sugar.
  33. Ivar Vong
  34. Danielle Keeton-Olsen
  35. Andy Rossback
  36. Simon Elvery
  37. Jonathan Keegan
  38. Kenan Davis
  39. Eva Constantaras
  40. Juan Elosua
  41. Yelena Mejova
  42. Martin Burch

2015 41

  1. Graham Roberts
  2. Alison Benjamin
  3. Becky Bowers
  4. Jeremy Bowers
  5. Tara Adiseshan
  6. Ashley Wu
  7. Christopher Groskopf
  8. Robinson Meyer
  9. Michael Grant
  10. Tyler Machado
  11. Tracie Lee
  12. Andrew Mason
  13. Matt Frehner
  14. Nathaniel Lash
  15. Lauren Rabaino
  16. CJ Sinner
  17. Welcome to Work Week By Posted on September 14, 2015 Welcome to #workweek.
  18. Alan Palazzolo
  19. Noah Veltman
  20. Maegan Clawges
  21. Julia Smith
  22. Michael Keller
  23. Jeremy Singer-Vine
  24. Ryan Mark
  25. Francis Tseng
  26. Event Roundup, July 6 By Posted on July 6, 2015 The third Hacking Journalism event is in DC this weekend, plus a data visualization workshop in Pittsburgh, and Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world.
  27. Jolie McCullough
  28. How We Made “Money as a Weapons System” By Posted on June 10, 2015 How ProPublica’s team communicated the complexities—and absurdities—of $2B in mostly unrestricted spending by military personnel in Afghanistan.
  29. Kathryn Beaty
  30. Daniel Bachhuber
  31. Lindsey Cook
  32. Zara Rahman
  33. Ed Summers
  34. Event Roundup, Apr 6 By Posted on April 6, 2015 Deadline to propose to ONA and SRCCON this Friday, plus events in the US, UK, and more.
  35. Dylan Yep
  36. Ingrid Burrington
  37. John Keefe
  38. Matt Waite
  39. Jacob Harris
  40. Wes Lindamood
  41. Anthony DeBarros

2014 56

  1. Nikolas Iubel
  2. D’Vera Cohn
  3. Denise Malan
  4. Tom Nehil
  5. John Hancock
  6. Mike Maciag
  7. Florencia Coelho
  8. Simon Rogers
  9. Chris Wilson
  10. Emily Alpert Reyes
  11. Agustin Armendariz
  12. Brian Chirls
  13. Empire: Lessons from Pushing the Boundaries of Web Video By Posted on September 23, 2014 Brian Chirls introduces an ambitious video framework for a challenging interactive documentary.
  14. Basile Simon
  15. Robert Gebeloff
  16. Roman Kalyakin
  17. Tom Giratikanon
  18. Kio Stark
  19. Jeff Larson
  20. Ryan D. Murphy
  21. Alastair Coote
  22. Chris Canipe
  23. Tom Meagher
  24. Zoe Fraade-Blanar
  25. Meet KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane By Posted on June 25, 2014 Earlier today, I posted a few details about works-in-progress emerging from last weekend’s MIT-Knight-Mozilla Hack Day. The event produced six great projects, and we have two more to share with you: KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane.
  26. Ronald Campbell
  27. Alastair Dant
  28. Daniel Solomon
  29. Sarah Slobin
  30. Jeremy Scott Diamond
  31. Brian Abelson
  32. Erik Hinton
  33. Al Shaw
  34. What We Learned from the First-Ever OpenNews Code Convening By Posted on April 14, 2014 When we talk with newsrooms about open-sourcing their work, often the response we get is that they’d love to, but deadline pressures keep the last-mile work and documentation that signifies a good open-source pro
  35. Paul Overberg
  36. Mike Tigas
  37. Event Roundup, Mar 31 By Posted on March 31, 2014 Today is deadline day for Wikimania, plus get your Data Journalism Awards entries and Open Source Bridge proposals in by Friday.
  38. Source ebooks
  39. Joseph Kokenge
  40. Jacqui Maher
  41. Albert Sun
  42. Ken Schwencke
  43. Jay Boice
  44. Nicolas Belmonte
  45. Charlie Szymanski
  46. Mike Dewar
  47. Tasneem Raja
  48. Maryanne Murray
  49. New Work in News Code, Feb. 13th 2014 By Posted on February 13, 2014 The Source roundup returns with biweekly summaries of notable interactive features, news apps, data work, and newsroom code commentary.
  50. Jessica Lord
  51. Pablo Mercado
  52. Ben Chartoff
  53. Joe Flowers
  54. Chris Keller
  55. Alyson Hurt
  56. Abe Epton

2013 35

  1. Matt Chadburn
  2. Shelly Tan
  3. Shane Shifflett
  4. Feilding Cage
  5. Waldo Jaquith
  6. Megan Garvey
  7. Joanna S. Kao
  8. Trevor Timm
  9. Danny DeBelius
  10. Dan Sinker
  11. Rich Harris
  12. Adrian Holovaty
  13. Derek Eder
  14. David Blooman
  15. Katie Zhu
  16. Mariano Blejman
  17. Miguel Paz
  18. Travis Swicegood
  19. Joey Marburger
  20. Shazna Nessa
  21. Justin Falcone
  22. Sean McDade
  23. Cole Goins
  24. Ben Welsh
  25. Michael Behr
  26. Alex Bordens
  27. Dan Schultz
  28. Beth Hawkins
  29. Manuel Aristarán
  30. Gustavo Faleiros
  31. Renee DiResta
  32. Adam Thomas
  33. Peter Aldhous
  34. Trei Brundrett
  35. Steve Duenes

2012 7

  1. Heather Billings
  2. Miranda Mulligan
  3. Mike Bostock
  4. Timothy C. Barmann
  5. Kat Downs
  6. Tyson Evans
  7. Darla Cameron