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Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in ...

Q. So, very first thing, ICIJ has said that it will release a batch of data later this spring, but not the entire dataset—could you say a little about that, and about the way you’re timing the ...

Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

Within the diversity represented by the sample, a typical Leaver profile emerged. (Illustration by William Lager) For the first time in 50 years, Black and other journalists of color (JOC) are waging ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wildfires have been at the forefront of our newsroom’s mind this year, as they have been for pretty much any California news outlet. In October, we opened up an audience survey about our wildfire ...

There are a lot of great resources available for people at all levels of employment who want to become better allies. This guide is meant to collect some of those resources and share examples specific ...

Journalism can be a risky business. Reporters covering violence necessarily work in unsafe circumstances, and news organizations have to worry about getting sued for defamation or sanctioned by one ...

The changing makeup of households and the relationships within them offer some of the most fertile areas for reporting on demographic trends in America. Over time, slow but steady changes in who lives ...

Detail from the SND award-winning video version of “Melting Antarctica.” For over 120 years, National Geographic magazine has mapped Antarctica, and continues to visually illustrate the complex ...