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• Making timelines

  Displaying a series of events can be as simple as drawing a straight line. But if you want to get fancier, there are a bunch of other options to display chronologies and storylines. In this talk, we'll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three open-source tools to help you make your own: ProPublica's TimelineSetter, Zach Wise's TimelineJS, and WNYC's Vertical Timeline. http://lenagroeger.s3.amazonaws.com/timelines/timelines.html

  Tags: data

  By Lena Groeger

  2013

• OpenBlock: A free and open source platform for hyperlocal news aggregation, mapping, and more

  Learn about OpenBlock, a free and open source news platform to create your own hyperlocal news website or hyperlocal news engine.

  Tags: open source; OpenBlock

  By Frank Hebbert

  2011

• Free software, part deux

  Fenton discusses free software available for visualization, Flash development, R for statistics, desktop GIS software, free server software and much more.

  Tags: data visualization; server software; GIS; web development; open source; newsapps

  By Jacob Fenton

  2011

• Criminal justice investigations: tips from unexpected people and documents

  This tipsheet touches on unexpected people and documents in criminal justice reporting. "Rivalries and jealousies open the door to tips and document leaks for well-positioned reporters." Diedrich details a number of these type of sources and materials.

  Tags: crime; justice; police; Federal Bureau of Investigation; probation agents; judges; clerks; convicts; warrants; arrest reports; autopsy records; indictments; trial exhibits

  By John Diedrich

  2010

• Getting your Intranet Out

  Henderson outlines the necessary steps to get an intranet up and running in your newsroom. He also explains the sources to explore if you would like to automate your look-ups.

  Tags: intranet; databases; database-enabled server; PHP; Python; Perl; open-source;

  By Tim Henderson

  2009

• Open Source Alternatives

  This tipsheet lists some free or low-cost alternatives to commercial software used for CAR work.

  Tags: CAR; computer-assisted reporting; open source

  By Derek Willis

  2009

• Center for Responsive Politics Recent Stories

  "Here are some of the stories that reporters and researchers at the Center for Responsive Politics produced in the last year by mashing up data on OpenSecrets.org with other sources."

  Tags: story ideas; political investigations; campaign finance; federal government

  By Center for Responsive Politics

  2008

• Investigating Ethnic Communities

  Kestin draws on a recent eleven-month investigation of the Seminole Tribe in Florida to offer advice to other reporters covering ethnic communities. Her tips include advice for cultivating sources and working around a lack a open records laws.

  Tags: diversity; Native Americans; cross-cultural journalism

  By Sally Kestin

  2008

• Negotiating for Data

  Gillum discusses the entire data negotiation process. The tipsheet begins with sources to find data. Gillum then moves on to reason why requests are often refused, and how reporters can challenge those refusals. Finally, Gillum suggests some alternate ways of acquiring data, such as filing a lawsuit or reporting on an agency's lack of compliance with FOIA rules.

  Tags: data negotiation; FOIA requests; open records laws

  By Jack Gillum

  2008

• Unsung Documents

  The authors begin their tipsheet with five pieces of advice for looking at documents, such as "always view documents over time" and "make copies before you start marking them up." The authors then list a variety of useful, but little-known, documents for investigative reporting. Some examples they list are flight logs for nonprofit aircraft and lists of documents filed with the state archives.

  Tags: documents; sources; open records; federal government; state government

  By Mike McGraw; Joe Stephens; Jim Steele

  2008