A guide that summarizes recent research on automated journalism, provides an overview of the current state of the field, discusses key questions and potential implications of its adoption, and suggests avenues for future research
A guide that provides an overview of the ways that news organizations are using chat apps to tell innovative new stories, build brand awareness and engage entirely new audiences
A report that offers a guide to the use and significance of SecureDrop, an in-house system for news organizations to securely communicate with anonymous sources and receive documents over the Internet
A report on algorithms, the idea of algorithmic accountability, reverse engineering algortihms, and methodological details on how algorithmic accountability reporting might be realized in practice
A short history of blockchain, its main functionality, the components and inner workings of a block and the blockchain, and blockchain’s journalistic applications
A report that aims to help journalists, lawyers, and academics understand the changes taking place in media law as a result of both the growing volume of data in our information economy, and the the seismic shifts occurring within journalism and technology
Compilation of training resources by the Digital Transition at The New York Times with dozens of spreadsheets, worksheets, cheat sheets and tip sheets for students, professors or journalists
A guide by Quartz that delves into the kinds of problems that reporters encounter when working with (messy) data. Are values missing? Duplicated? Spelling inconsistent? This guide suggests solutions to these common issues.
A ProPublica guide that walks you through basic (and elaborate) checks for every dataset, from making sure you know how many records you should have to assuring you have them all.
