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By Maggie Angst For journalists working with audio or video, it can sometimes be challenging to find the best way to display data in story.Joe Wertz, an environment and energy reporter for StateImpact Oklahoma, emphasized that although we really want a character to tell a story, sometimes the data can be the character. For example,…
Read MoreBy Carlie Procell Mike Tigas, a news applications developer at ProPublica, and Nicole Hensley, a reporter at the New York Daily News, addressed some cybersecurity issues journalists face and offered tips and tricks for working around them. “As journalists we have to communicate with sources,” Tigas said during the “Digital dark arts” panel. “So we’re…
Read MoreBy Brittany Crocker There’s a saying in the journalism world: “News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.” Carrie Levine from the Center for Public Integrity said if that’s true, then we should all be writing stories about dark money. Levine, Robert Maguire from the Center for Responsive Politics and Melissa Yeager of…
Read MoreBrent Jones | Photo by Phillip Jackson Phillip Jackson, a student Hampton University and a 2016 CAR Conference Knight Scholar, talks with Brent Jones, the data visual specialist for St. Louis Public Radio. Jackson: What do you do at St. Louis Public Radio? Jones: I help reporters use data to tell stories, and that can…
Read MoreMeleah Holmes, a student at Norfolk State University and a 2016 CAR Conference Knight Scholar, talks to Kimbriell Kelly, a investigative reporter at The Washington Post. Holmes: In your own words, what is an investigative journalist? Kelly: A reporter who produces in-depth work using thorough research, analysis and reporting methods to convey what they have…
Read MorePaula Lavigne | Photo by Maliik Obee Maliik Obee, a Morgan State University student and 2016 CAR Conference Knight Scholar, talks to Paula Lavigne of ESPN. Maliik Obee: How did you get interested in investigative journalism? Paula Lavigne: I’ve been interested in it ever since college. I was on the student paper at my university.…
Read MoreBy Carlie Procell In a Friday afternoon panel, Scott Pham, a data journalist and news application developer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, led a discussion on how to more easily integrate data and technology into your newsroom. Pham began the session by talking about The Lonely Coders Club, which is a group of data…
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Read MoreBy Raven Nichols From achievement gaps to the disproportionate impact of the mortgage crisis, the story of inequality takes many different shapes and forms. Holly Hacker, Kimbriell Kelly, Burt Hubbard and Malik Singleton offered tips at a panel on Saturday morning about how journalists can best investigate inequality. Hubbard, a Rocky Mountain PBS journalist, spoke…
Read MoreBy Jasmine Ye Han For NewsAppers, the struggle is real. As developers, we need to keep up with technology, but the news side of things requires us to deliver content under deadline. How can we keep honing our skills under the pressure of production? How can news application team leaders create a culture of lifelong…
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