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A new tool for extracting tables of data from PDFs

Justin EllisMarch 7, 2013

Dallas Morning News partners with local government group to gather clean, universal crime data

A grant from Knight’s Prototype Fund will pay for a council of North Texas governments to render crime data from dozens of sources into a format journalists and the public can use.

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Hiding in public: How the National Archives wants to open up its data to Americans

The agency, home to more than 500 terabytes of electronic files alone, faces some of the same problems that data journalists do. Justin Ellis

What the Tesla affair tells us about data journalism

Better (not second) screens, document clustering, and mobile-native news: Some of Spark Camp’s big ideas of 2012

Amy Webb, Scott Klein, and Jim Frederick share some of the big ideas they’ll take away from the year. Spark Camp

Adrienne LaFranceOctober 18, 2012

ProPublica’s Message Machine is figuring out what the Obama campaign knows about me

Crowdsourcing and computer intelligence help reverse-engineer campaign targeting.

ProPublica gets $1.9 million from Knight to expand its efforts in data journalism

The three-year grant means ProPublica will add staff to its news applications team. Adrienne LaFrance

Adrienne LaFranceJuly 11, 2012

Finally, a Talking Points Memo mobile app — but it might not be what you’re expecting

TPM’s publisher says mobile apps must add value, and can’t just replicate the desktop or laptop experience.

Jonathan StrayMay 30, 2012

What is it that journalists do? It can’t be reduced to just one thing

In the start of a regular column for Nieman Lab, Jonathan Stray argues that a too-narrow definition of the work of journalism limits the field’s potential.

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