Source: Guides

The team at Census Reporter sponsored a series of amazing, hyper-detailed Source articles on working with the US Census. They're collected here as a deep resource for journalists digging into the Census, whether as an expert, or for the first time.

This collection of resources by journalists and security specialists will help you make safer decisions about where and how to speak to sources.

Here's everything that makes the workday actually work: communicating better, functioning more efficiently—remotely and in person, taking charge of your own learning, making the tools your team needs, and much more.

From design concepts to final code, this collection of project beakdowns and Learning articles will jump-start your news apps process—and help you leapfrog common interface mistakes and data problems.

This guide is a collection of any public resources DEI Coalition members create.

There are so many different ways to analyze and parse a dataset—it’s part of what makes data analysis exciting. But working with data can pose major challenges, whether we’re dealing with FOI denials or just trying to free data from (sadly ubiquitous) PDFs. Most time spent on data analysis is devoted to requesting, cleaning, and structuring data, and wrangling it into a format we can actually pip…

This collection of resources and learning materials will walk you through practices recommended by security specialists for defending your newsroom against common attacks on your accounts.

Maps remain one of the most common visualizations in news code. In a collection that will grow over time, we're gathering up project walkthroughs and Learning pieces focused on making maps that are clear, nuanced, and useful.

Fact-checking is a vital way to build trust, defend our work, and check the creep of biases. It means asking, “What do we know, really? And how do we know it?” This collection offers practical suggestions for bulletproofing your work on deadline, plugging holes in a long-term project, and testing a data analysis. It also includes writing about the fundamental ideas behind verification as well as …

From birth to retirement and from timeliness to traffic management, we offer a collection of articles that will help you keep your projects happy and healthy until it's time to say goodbye.

At the end of 2017, we held the first-ever SRCCON:WORK, an event focused on hiring, careers, and work culture for news nerds and the people who work with them. We asked our session facilitators for links to resources they keep coming back to, and they offered a trove of great pieces, supplemented here with favorites of our own.

Everything you need to know about making good charts, and getting better at making good charts.