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Open Journalism Update: August 30–September 12, 2026
In the past two weeks, 18 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights Local Angle announced Backfield on Tuesday. It is an open-source platform that turns…
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Why Local Angle Open-Sourced Backfield
On Tuesday, Local Angle announced Backfield, an open-source platform that turns news stories into structured data. Local Angle is longtime journalist-developer Chase Davis’s product lab. Backfield pulls the locations out of articles…
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Open Journalism Update: August 9–29, 2026
I’ve been traveling and skipped last week, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 14 news organizations created or opened 18 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights Diagram Chasing…
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Open Journalism Update: July 26–August 8, 2026
Over the past fortnight, 13 news organizations published 15 new open-source repositories — investigative data releases, election-service pages, and a newsroom-built Slack agent. Highlights below. Highlights I was excited to see KQED’s…
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Open Journalism Update: July 12–25, 2026
Over the past fortnight, 13 news organizations published 18 new open-source repositories — a run of data projects and trackers alongside a notable cluster of tools built for, and with, AI coding…
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Open Journalism Update: June 28–July 11, 2026
A little late this week, as I’m writing from vacation in the Adirondacks. First, in case you missed it: earlier this month I published a standalone piece on Schibsted’s Videofy, the most-starred…
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The Most-Starred Newsroom Project of the Year (So Far)
Note: If you’re interested in open source and heading to SRCCON in Minneapolis next week, be sure to check out Emilia Ruzicka and Joe Germuska’s session on the subject: “Putting the Open…
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Open Journalism Update: June 14–27, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, published the data and analysis behind…
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Open Journalism Update: May 31–June 13, 2026
In the past two weeks, more than a dozen news organizations opened or created public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights The Pudding published the code and data behind “A Love Story”,…
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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…