Over the past year or so, about 40 volunteer developers of all skill levels have been working collectively to build a new tool that scrapes government websites to compile a comprehensive list of [...]
Patrick Doyle was leaving a pick-up basketball game two Saturdays ago when his cell phone rang. Doyle is the news director of WESA, the public radio station in Pittsburgh, and as he was heading [...]
On a recent evening in Middelfart, Denmark more than 100 teenagers gathered in an auditorium to meet with the city’s mayor and other local leaders to discuss a handful of community issues the [...]
With a vase of flowers sitting in the middle of a circle of chairs, a small group of Sacramento residents from all walks of life gathered to discuss a sensitive topic: The meaning of home. This [...]
In case you’ve forgotten already, there was a royal wedding last May. American Meghan Markle married Prince Harry. It was a big deal. Seemingly every news organization on the planet covered it, [...]
Earlier this year, journalist Madeleine Bair traveled around Oakland, Calif. with an oversized golden microphone. Bair interviewed dozens of members of the Latino immigrant community about the [...]
Tonight, in Strasbourg, France, Martine Wonner, a member of the French National Assembly, sat down for an interview with Pierre France, the founder of the local news site Rue89 Strasbourg. The [...]
In a lot of ways, historians are confronting many of the same issues as journalists. Just like reporters dive into communities to cover stories, archivists will often go into a community, conduct [...]
If, like me, you’ve donated to ProPublica, you’ve probably received an email from Jill Shepherd, ProPublica’s director of online fundraising and outreach. And as we approach the end of the year, [...]
More than 1 billion people use the Chinese messaging app WeChat each month. Not surprisingly, the app’s reach spreads far beyond China’s borders as Chinese expats, travellers, and students [...]
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