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Open Journalism Update: May 17–30, 2026
In the past two weeks, a dozen news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights Deutsche Welle published the data, code, and methodology behind its analysis of pesticide…
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Vibe Coding Is Growing Fast in Newsrooms, Too
This weekend I dug into my database of open-source GitHub repositories to see how frequently newsrooms are leaving behind signals that they’re coding with an AI agent (a.k.a. “vibe coding”). Here’s what…
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Open Journalism Update: April 26 – May 16, 2026
I’ve been traveling a bunch and skipped a regularly scheduled post, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 23 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Note: I’m…
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Open Journalism Update: April 12 – April 25, 2026
It was a pretty quiet fortnight: 13 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Highlights USA Today published a freezing-days analysis covering 1956–2025 daily minimum temperature data, finding that 255…
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Open Journalism Update: March 29 – April 11, 2026
In the past two weeks, 16 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released a Creative Commons licensed dataset of 4,700+ federal court cases from New Mexico…
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Open Journalism Update: March 15–28, 2026
In the second half of March, 20 news organizations created or opened 26 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released gas-ssi-toolkit, the source code for their SSI Toolkit, a Google Sheets add-on…
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Open Journalism Update: March 1–14, 2026
In the first two weeks of March, 18 news organizations created or opened 21 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights IRE/NICAR released both the backend and frontend for the new archive.ire.org site. It’s…
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README
For most of the 2010s, newsroom technologists got into a good habit: They shared their work. They put data and code on GitHub and wrote lengthy blog posts explaining how they did…
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Open Journalism Update: Feb. 15–28, 2026
In the second half of February, 10 news organizations created or opened 12 public repositories on GitHub. Many were tied to the NICAR 2026 conference in Indianapolis. Highlights MuckRock released klaxon-extension, a Chrome extension…
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Open Journalism Update: Feb. 1–14, 2026
In the first two weeks of February, 10 news organizations created or opened 14 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights CBS News released pinpoint-multi-search, which lets journalists search across multiple Epstein Files document collections simultaneously…