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’ ...

Dhrumil Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and the Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. He helps to run the Columbia's Computer Science + ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At SRCCON in June, we hosted a discussion about countering polarization in coverage of science topics. On the heels of two years of pandemic weirdness, not to mention years of entrenched discourse ...

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 ...